Sam Gleaves: Ain’t We Brothers

Born and raised in Wythe County in southwest Virginia, Sam Gleaves performs innovative mountain music with a sense of history. Under the direction of local teacher and barber Jim Lloyd, Sam took up stringband instruments as a teenager, including the banjo, guitar, fiddle, autoharp and dulcimer. With his mentor ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams, Sam found his voice and fell in love with the mountain love songs, which he carries into his generation with pride. Sam’s performances combine traditional Appalachian ballads, dance tunes, original songs and the stories that surround the music.

“Ain’t We Brothers” (with Tim O’Brien) from Sam Gleaves’ album Ain’t We Brothers. Now available at http://www.samgleaves.com/ Video produced by Jesse Anderson, CoPhoto.