Everything’s Fine, the outstanding new album by acclaimed Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sam Lewis, which is scheduled for release on March 6 2026 on Loversity Records. Sam will be touring the UK in support of the album from March 9-22.
Everything’s Fine is Sam Lewis’s 7th studio album already being self-described as ‘a departure from the departure’ that was his 2024 effort, Superposition. Teaming back up with Joe McMahan who engineered and recorded Harley Kimbro Lewis (Sam’s 2022 transatlantic collaboration with Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro), Sam returned to Joe’s home studio in Nashville in January 2025 and performed a dozen solo-acoustic originals for Joe who listened and asked, ‘what do you want to do with these songs?’ Sam answered with a question of his own…’how involved do you want to be and how sparse of an album do you think we can make?’
Joe offered to produce the album while also lending his many musical talents, spanning several instruments, quickly learning the bulk of the job would require a maximum amount of restraint to achieve the ‘minimalist’ aim for the set. Fortunately, Joe has decades worth of experience and is deeply in tune with the overall human condition, making his approach and studio a sanctuary for songwriters.
The first thirty seconds of the album’s lead song and first single, ‘Chase the Moon’ (out January 9), is a warm ethereal soundscape that feels like a continuation of Sam’s previous work, Superposition (2024), before peeling away like a piece of cellophane revealing an ultimate intimacy that sets the vibe for the whole album. Lots of ‘firsts’ for Sam in these recordings include an instrumental track named after his cat, ‘Lischey’s Retreat’ (‘lee-she’); a haunting duet and the album’s second single, ‘The Light’ (out February 13), featuring world-renowned recording artist Judy Blank; a nearly ‘overdramatic’ string arrangement on the title track; with further sonic flourishes utilized elsewhere, such as an Optigan and it’s multiple manic-melodic loops on ‘My Life Living Me’ and Sam’s wife’s late grandmother’s Omnichord kicking off ‘Old Love’ and holding down the synthesized low end throughout the track. The album comes to a sobering close with a solo performance of a song Sam wishes he had written, ‘Three County Highway’ by the Indigo Girls.
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“The easy groove, and warm, effortless, gravel-edged voice reel you in from the very start… he sounds from another time, or timeless.” Mojo “Lewis proves he’s a talent to be reckoned with.” No Depression “Sam Lewis applies his voice and his swift picking (reminiscent of Mississippi John Hurt) to playlets worthy of John Steinbeck.” Paris Move “…his songs are outstanding, more than justifying past comparisons to Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and John Prine.” RNR magazine |
All songs live under an umbrella titled, ‘Everything’s Fine’ which Lewis says, “is kind of a blanket statement I have become obsessed with for a while now…I love its duality and its usage whether it’s regarding the micro or macro of life…maybe everything’s fine, maybe it’s not, maybe it’s ‘fine’ in the macro sense but not at all in the micro sense or vice versa. I am definitely guilty of using it to define situations that are in fact NOT ‘fine’. We all have different thresholds of what may or may not be ‘fine’ but our unwillingness to accept discourse can lead to a further sense of disconnection if not properly addressed. ‘Everything’s Fine‘ is the most appropriate statement for the world I find myself living in at the moment.”
“The album cover is a pencil drawing by Rusty Barwick who’s work I adore particularly this piece titled ‘Petwear’ that I purchased while making the album Everything’s Fine. I feel very much like the man wearing welding glasses with an amphibian on his head who seems to be getting a little better view of things. Many different cultures believe frogs represent transformation, renewal, and adaptability. I find the album title and artwork properly represent this current body of work.”
While each album has a distinct sound, they all circle back to one universal theme and certainly something you will hear Lewis preach to his audience, “we are all trying to get somewhere - all running from something or toward something; we’re all in it together, though.”
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