"Love Your Lies" pops out of the box with a '60s girl group vibe testifying Memphis horns and Fish's guitar cook it down on the backbeat. "Fair Weather" weds gentle rock to R&B in a deep ballad about the aftermath of a broken romance. The words get rung out with a passionate vocal that matches Fish's wrangling slide guitar and punchy horns. "Watch It Die" is smoking blues-rock with killer lyric poetry. Immediately following, the title track's swampy Rhodes piano, organ, and roiling horns meet her incendiary vocal and a loose backbeat. Fish runs the blues voodoo down on the squalling slide opener "Bulletproof" with noisy, howling production that weds Billy Gibbons' nasty distorto-boogie to Tom Waits racket-making musicality. So are the many changes that go along with having it, losing it, and abandoning it. Fish cut the record in New Orleans and in Memphis. Kate Pearlman and Eric McFadden who usually write for country and pop artists are also here with Oklahoma roots rocker Parker Milsap and Ohio bluesman Patrick Sweeney. Fish and Grammy-winning producer Scott Billington sought out top-notch co-writers to collaborate on the album. Not content to pen rhyming couplets to frame blistering solos and riffs, she has, since Belle of the West, sought the place where melody lives. On Kill or Be Kind it's the worthy ambition to become a better songwriter. For years she soaked up examples imparted by mentors in her twin pursuits as a guitarist and bandleader, transforming what worked in her own image - she remade the blues that way too. The guitar slinger has always stretched herself musically. She moved to New Orleans and left her longtime label Ruf Records for Rounder. After releasing two excellent - but very different - records in 2017, Samantha Fish spent the last year undergoing some changes.
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