Sam Buckingham
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Sam Buckingham

 

You’re about to order your new favourite album 🙌

 
 

Hi! I’m so happy you’re here 🎶

I don’t know much about you (yet) but here’s a little about me….

I’m from Australia 🦘

I eat / drink chocolate at least twice a day, I’m learning Portuguese, I have a cat named Dinky and I’ve recently figured out how to keep at least 75% of all my house and garden plants alive (BIG WIN).

I’m also a self managed & independent artist, songwriter, producer and performer. And, in April 2022, I released an album called DEAR JOHN.

I wrote these songs after the dramatic ending of a toxic relationship. Like, really dramatic. And really toxic 🙅‍♀️

For years I tried so hard to be better, to be more and to do more for this person I was with (let’s call him “John”, shall we?)

Ultimately, that led me to a complete nervous breakdown.

While I was (literally) picking myself back up off the floor, I wrote these songs and recorded the album.

But, actually, the album has nothing to do with John.

This album documents my process of healing, learning and rising up to become the woman I want to be… and creating something more for myself ❤️

(me, literally minutes after shaving my head on camera for the DEAR JOHN video clip…. THIS 👇 is the woman I want to be)

 
 

 I know this might seem weird…

Before we go any further I want to say…. I know this might seem weird!

Some random woman popping up in front of you on the internet, telling you about her album, offering you a digital download for 1c 📣

Why should you trust me?? And what kind of proof is there that this album is even any good?

Well, let me answer those questions for you!

Actually, I’ll let some of my fans answer them ❤️

There are thousands more messages, comments, emails and conversations like this 😭 🙌

Actually, the response to DEAR JOHN is the exact reason I’m now plastering this album all over the internet and offering it to you for 1c / pay what you want.

I believe in this album So. Much. I’ve been seeing these songs resonate with people, all around the world, for more than two years now.

I’ve had people tell me that it’s empowered them, inspired them, educated them, helped them heal and helped them rise up.

I’ve had people tell me that singing along to these songs brings them immense joy, happiness and power.

I’ve had people tell me that this album has changed their life.

Honestly, when I made it, I was NOT expecting that.

But it makes sense….. this album changed my life too….

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Making DEAR JOHN was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done

But, it was also the most empowering and rewarding thing I’ve ever done.

I co-produced it with one of my best friends, during a global pandemic, while recovering from the biggest trauma I’ve ever experienced.

I wrote every single word that you hear me sing.

Kent Eastwood (my co-producer) and I wrote every single note that you hear played on this album. We wrote the bass lines, the string arrangements, the drum beats, the choir parts, the piano parts, the guitar riffs…. you get the point! Then we took the entire album blueprint into the studio and had incredible musicians play the music we’d written for them.

I had such a clear vision for what I wanted this album to be and I can honestly say, after three months of solid work (and lots of cups of tea), we 100% made that vision come to life.

(in one of my favourite places in the world… the producers chair 👇 🎶)

 
 

These are my stories…. and I think they might be your stories too

In one of the darkest periods in my life I created strong, joyful music (that is BRILLIANT to sing along to 🎶).

It’s folk, it’s pop, it’s heart-slamming, it’s spirit stirring, and it’s full of truth and fire 🔥

Honestly, I’m damn proud.

I told my story with absolutely no filter. This album is SO personal to me. It’s my story, 100%

And I’ve had countless people tell me that these songs are their stories too.

WTF!?

After 2.5 years of touring this album, I understand now that that’s how stories work. You think it’s “just me” - but as soon as we start to share our story, we discover that so many people have experienced the same or similar things.

And, in this case (based off the emails, DM’s, comments, and conversations I’ve had with SO MANY people at gigs) it turns out we’ve all known a “John”.

 I’ve always wanted to help make the world a better place and I struggled for a long time, thinking that writing songs was “selfish”.

I don’t think that anymore.

But, still, I want to do something very “unselfish”. I want to give you this album.

Why?

Because I believe in these songs, and I believe in you.

xoSam

 
 
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 The album

Here’s the album track-listing, and a little bit about each song, so you know what to expect 😊

💰 RICH GIRL - about all the unhelpful things our minds (and other people) tell us.. this song is me saying “Nope. I’m not buying into that anymore”

💥 DEAR JOHN - an actual letter I wrote to “John”, calling out all the things he did, and placing the responsibility of his actions back on him

❤️ WHOLE - this song took me quite a few weeks to write, before I felt like I was saying exactly what I wanted (and needed) to say. It’s about reclaiming my power as a woman 💪

🐓 CHICKEN WINGS - i wrote this (while I was still with “John”) when I was feeling really confused and really low. I was looking for something / someone / anything to help me walk away

🔥 LET IT BURN - this song was inspired by a chapter in Glennon Doyle’s book “Untamed”... Sometimes, when things aren’t working for us anymore, we have to let them burn

🌳 GROWING TALL - this song was insired by Taylor Swift! It’s about all (literally ALL) my ex-boyfriends telling me I couldn’t be who I wanted to be / do what I wanted to. F*ck that!

⚡️ RUN - i wrote this in the middle of the night, while we were in pre-production for the album. When I wrote this song I realised I had SO MUCH more to say. So, I scrapped 70% of the album I had planned to make and wrote most of the songs that you now hear on the album (in a very short period of time 😂). This song is about listening to that quiet (or screaming) voice inside of you that says “RUN”

💪 SOMETHING MORE - “I believe in something more”… this song has become my anthem!

🤫 STAND - standing up for who you are, standing tall in whatever place you find yourself, standing up for the people around you. This song is about not hiding, not keeping secrets, and not giving up.

🌈 RAINBOWS - storms will happen… but, if we bring our light, we create a rainbow that shines through the rain

(BONUS! I’ll also send you three FIRE film clips that I made for the album AND two weeks worth of stories to help you keep rising up 🔥)

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