Samantha Fish is coming back with a new album, and she's brought her cigar box guitar to the recording sessions!  

The Kansas City blues diva has just premiered her first single, "Crow Jane" from her latest album Chills & Fever. The track is an old Skip James cover, delivered in a greasy Detroit groove.

Fish recently told Guitar World, “It’s such an old song, and I felt like it could be a really killer, ballsy song. I played the cigar box guitar on it, which my love affair of the cigar box goes up and down. Sometimes I’m really into it and sometimes I’m not. But it adds such a cool, heavy texture. It has a P-bass pickup on a guitar with only four strings, and it just sounds really guttural and kinda nasty. That song is very guitar driven and the horns almost add a New Orleans funeral procession vibe to it. It’s pretty heavy. I picked it because it was a dark, creepy song and I like that kind of stuff. I’m into the macabre.”

Chills & Fever will be released on March 17.  Find out more information at SamanthaFish.com

Tour Dates

Mar 3    Lafayette’s Music Room             Memphis, TN
Mar 4    Bottleneck Blues Bar                 Vicksburg, MS
Mar 5    DBA                                          New Orleans, LA
Mar 9    Terra Fermata                           Stuart, FL
Mar 10  Funky Biscuit                            Boca Raton, FL
Mar 11  Bonita Springs Blues Festival     Bonita Springs, FL
Mar 17  Jackson Hole Rendezvous Fest   Jackson Hole, WY
Mar 18  River City Blues Festival             Marietta, OH
Apr 6    The Palladium                           St. Petersburg, FL
Apr 8    Tampa Bay Blues Festival          St.Petersburg, FL
Apr 11  The Stanhope House                 Stanhope, NJ
Apr 12  Sellersville Theatre                    Sellersville, PA
Apr 13  Birchmere                                 Alexandria, VA
Apr 14  Highline Ballroom                      New York, NY
Apr 15  Harrisburg Midtown Arts             Harrisburg, PA
Apr 21  Sweetwater 420 Festival             Atlanta, GA
Apr 22  Savage Station                          Asheville, NC
Apr 23  Pleasure Island Blues & Jazz Fest  Kure Beach, NC
May 5   Republic                                    New Orleans, LA
May 20 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival   Annapolis, MD
May 21 Doheny Blues Festival               Dana Beach, CA
Jun 10  Greeley Blues Jam Festival         Greeley, CO
Jun 16  WC Handy Blues & BBQ             Henderson, KY 42420
Jun 17  Utah Blues Festival                    Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 19 Big Bull Falls Blues Festival        Wausau, WI