Built by Association Samantha Crain's New Folk Implosion

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Samantha Crain thinks it's unreasonable for anyone to immediately assume that her Choctaw blood defines her or her music, which has always been steeped in modern American folk and pop conventions. "It doesn't play a huge part in my life, but maybe that's because I wasn't involved in the Native experience growing up, either," said the 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Shawnee, Oklahoma. "It's not that I or my family are ashamed of that part of us or anything, but Choctaw culture and reservation life just didn't play a big part in my upbringing."

While some of Crain's songs contain imagery inspired by Choctaw legends and oral traditions, most are a product of her personal life experience and her exposure to great American storytellers.

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Built by Association Samantha Crain's New Folk Implosion

Crain, who performs at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, at the main stage of the Thirsty Ear Festival, possesses a bubbly conversational voice that belies her wistful, haunting musical narratives. Hailing from the state that can arguably be described as the birthplace of modern American folk music (Woody Guthrie, who gave the world his Dust Bowl Ballads in 1940, was born ...

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