Something for Everybody by Sammy Rae & The Friends

Something for Everybody, the debut studio album from Brooklyn's Sammy Rae & The Friends, arrived on September 20, 2024 via Nettwerk, eight years after singer-songwriter Samantha "Sammy Rae" Bowers got the band going. They'd done things backwards: two EPs, The Good Life and Let's Throw a Party, and a live reputation big enough to sell out two nights at Washington's 9:30 Club that February, all before a full-length ever appeared.

That live energy is the whole idea. The Friends are a proper ensemble, with horns, a rhythm section and backing singers, and Bowers pulls from funk, jazz, rock, folk and pop without much concern for where one stops and the next begins. The result is jazz-pop that wants the whole room moving. "Thieves" is the song from it that reached the countdowns, and the year's touring carried the band as far as the North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam.

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