Amoeba Music

Amoeba is proud to host two cult heroines, Bridget St. John and Evie Sands, in a rare and extraordinary, stars-must-be-aligned double bill on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30pm! Evie Sands' latest full-length album, Get Out Of Your Own Way, and her mini-LP, Shine For Me (both on R-Spot Records), as well as Bridget St. John's mini-LP, Covering My Brothers (Shagrat Records), will be available for purchase that day at Amoeba SF. Buy one or both of the albums to get into the signing line and meet these icons. (Amoeba SF is the only retailer selling Bridget's album stateside!)

Both Bridget St. John and Evie Sands possess beloved iconic voices and have managed to persevere, true to their artful paths, actively creative. The two legends are on the aptly named "A Woman's Work Is Never Done" tour and will also appear at The Chapel on 4/10.

Evie St. John's Get Out Of Your Own Way was proclaimed “revelatory” by British mags MOJO and UnCut, and given 4-stars. Her definitive song "Angel of the Morning" figured significantly in last year’s controversial and lauded series Baby Reindeer, while Bridget St. John's Covering My Brothers interprets songs of her late Les Cousins Soho mates Nick Drake, John Martyn, Michael Chapman, and Kevin Ayers.

Bridget St. John was a leading light of the golden era of British Psych-Folk centered around London's Soho (akin to '60's US Greenwich Village). St John's back pages are a 'Zelig's reverie' alongside her famed Les Cousins club colleagues John Martyn, Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers, Michael Chapman, Mike Oldfield, Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Stefan Grossman, Dave Cousins, Ron Geesin, and fledgling folkie David (Bowie) Jones. She was, and remains an intense vocalist, mesmerizing guitarist and gifted interpreter who writes impressionistic songs of candid reflection sung in a low-key, unapologetic manner. Her distinctive voice delivers her material with an unintended aura of mystery, ambiguity, and authority that is unique beyond the era she is associated. Deep and resonant it seems to drown out every other sound around you, as though she is speaking directly to you. She plays with a calm stillness, with a kind of composure and gentleness that reminds us how compelling understatement can be. BSJ is an authentic treasure, eternally ripe for discovery who remains influential, vital, and actively collaborative with on-going torch-bearers Devendra Barnhart, Steve Gunn, Riley Walker, and William Tyler - a testament to the timeless quality of her material and regard for her legacy.

Evie Sands is a blue-eyed soul singer, naturally funky guitarist (left-handed and upside-down), enchanting performer, sultry songwriter, intuitive and inventive arranger and producer, a meticulous professional, and a musician’s-musician. Her career has traversed the musical spectrum of Tin Pan Alley, teenage package Pop tours, national TV exposure, major label hits, cult fandom, Northern Soul iconology, Indie label #1's, and digital DIY with her own synthesis of sophisticated soul, Americana, rock, and pop. Live, she combines her deep catalog of originals and vintage songs that she originated - "Take Me For A Little While," "I Can't Let Go," "Angel of the Morning," "Anyway That You Want Me," "I Love Making Love To You," and more. While Evie began her career as a teen ingenue given Brill Building torch songs to belt, she has evolved into a venerated songwriter whose songs have been covered by a cross-generational spectrum of artists from Dusty Springfield, Barbara Streisand, Gladys Knight, Cher, and Gregg Allman to Jazmine Sullivan, Lucinda Williams, Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Beth Orton, and Beck.