Sam Riggs Delivers All Aces on New Album 'Breathless' Out February 19th

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Nashville, TN (January 12, 2016 Press Release)- Sam Riggs hails from Austin, Texas, yet his name and reputation as a songwriting scholar having fashioned one of the very best live shows on the circuit is renown.  In this day and age, music travels fast, and Sam’s steady pursuit on the heels of his own widely proceeding reputation is a marathon that he admits leaves him breathless.  And so, his story continues with the release of his brand new album Breathless on February 19th.  The album will be the first release on Sam’s own label (Deep Creek Records) with marketing and distribution support from Thirty Tigers/Sony RED.  One week before the album’s release, Country Weekly Magazine will offer an exclusive stream of the music via their website on February 11th. The first single "The Lucky Ones" is already making its way to the radio waves.

“We got tremendous support on the last album from fans and media.  This incredible buzz started getting ramped up and show attendance started to sky rocket.  People really latched on to it.”  -Sam Riggs

Everybody loves a good “rags-to-riches” story.  Nothing seems to inspire the masses quite as well as the story about the underdog with the larger-than-life dream that finds the path of opportunity and emerges triumphant against the odds.  Sam Riggs has just such a story, and in his version, it was his move from his native Florida to Austin, Texas that was the dream.  It was his innate ability for songwriting and his passion for performance that provided the opportunity.  And it was his first album Outrun The Sun that brought Sam up directly into high music society with stellar national reviews, hit singles, hit music videos, national television music placement, elite invitations to perform at renown events, sold out crowds, 2.2 million total streams on Spotify, 600,000 plus views on YouTube, over 30,000 followers on his social media pages, and, most recently, a spotlight feature in Rolling Stone Country. 

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Produced by Sam Riggs himself along with Eric Herbst, Breathless is a sincere, unfiltered look into the person Sam has become.  The album’s first single “The Lucky Ones” represents the first leg of his journey, a story told through 20/20 hindsight about the fortunes of struggle with a cameo performance from the University of North Texas Drum Line.  “Gravity” is a true anchor on the album depicting that specific period in life between when you have to get out, and when you actually can.  Well throughout the album you get a real sense of Sam’s more vulnerable side, and the way he writes about a man’s response to a women’s spell is the stuff of bestselling novels.  Considering lyrics like “Just one kiss from your novocaine lips and you take all my pain away” (“Breathless”), “One more kiss is all I need to get through. I guess you’re just a habit I can’t break” (“Second Hand Smoke”), and “The fire in your touch, it’s like a needle in my veins” (“One More Chance To Stay”), you see a man who has warred with the dangerous addictions of love, but also one that has not been afraid to wave the white flag of surrender.  All this is not to say that the album is without muscle.  “Wake The Dead” feels like pure adrenaline, a heart racing ride in honky tonk rap style. And finally, “High On A Country Song” is the Sam Riggs live show experience coming through the speakers, where the energy is so thick you can cut it with a knife.  In total, Breathless is the sound you hear clearly above the racket of mediocrity, and it signals that a new age of “artist” has arrived. 

Sam Riggs 2016 Tour Dates

January 23rd - Commerce, TX-Drunken Mule Saloon
January 29th- Wichita, KS-The Port of Wichita
January 30th-Ft. Worth, TX-Ft. Worth Stock show and Rodeo
February 4th-Sugarland, TX-San Antonio Rose
February 5th-Spring, TX-Big Texas
February 6th-Port Arthur, TX-Mardi Gras Southeast Texas
February 18th-Cedar Park, TX-Wild West
February 19th-Helotes, TX-Floore’s Country Store
February 20th-Dallas,TX-Mardi Gras Texas Style
February 25th-Wichita Falls, TX-Denim & Diamonds
February 26th-Ft. Worth, TX-Whiskey Girl Saloon
February 27th-Stephenville, TX-City Limits