Sam Bradley is the picaresque vision of a music entertainer. Engaging, prolific, and diverse, Bradley knows how to keep his audience’s full and undivided attention.

This weekend, Sam Bradley made his way to Dallas, Texas.

It is an inexplicable understatement to say that his shows were fantastic.

Bradley’s gift for storytelling, musing with an attentive audience, and putting his whole and absolute self into his performance are but the first layer of his multifaceted portfolio of gifts.

His music embodies the mature culmination of so many inspirations, and he is able to delicately maneuver around the varying genres without betraying his unique and methodical persuasion. In Dallas, Bradley not only was able to play his own soothing, rhythmic melodies of note, but he was also able to put his flavorful and honest spin on classic varieties anywhere from O.V. Wright’s “How Strong My Love Is” to Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” to Brooks and Dunn’s “Boot, Scootin’ Boogie.”

Behind the scenes, Sam Bradley is one of the most sensitive and intuitive people in the music industry. He is perceptive of and quick to address the needs of all of those around him. His reputation for engaging fans and audiences in lengthy one-on-one discussions is clearly a result of his kindness and ability to instantly care about any and everyone around. The humanity of his personality is evident not only in his words and actions, but it is also readily apparent in his music.

His original songs, which will be released on EP this August 29th, are an absolute labor of Sam Bradley’s love for music. That effort and full-bodied submission to the creative process has worked out well for Bradley in his song deliveries.

Each song is carefully and precisely written so as to convey a particular piece of Sam Bradley’s person. There is something so organic and honest about Sam Bradley’s work that it enraptures his listeners from the very first moment.

In Dallas, Bradley performed to a sold-out audience. His was one of three performances of the evening – the other two being his close friends and colleagues Bobby Long and Marcus Foster. Bobby Long noted that it was an “honor to share a stage” with he and Foster.

Bradley played second in the show, riling up the audience with clever witticisms and dialogue that are a running portion of Bradley’s act – a second level of constancy (the first being his unadulterated sound) to his set list. When he got to “Sea Blue,” a song that has alone received over 300,000 plays on his MySpace page, he let his audience know that he was going to give his “full self” to the song, and so he did – as with the entirety of his solid and fluid presentation.

Bradley also played a duet with Marcus Foster, and then came out to sing “Crooked Sky” with both Foster and Long at the very end of the night.

Bradley has been touring around the United States, and will be making his way to Houston, Texas on August 4th, New Orleans, Louisiana on August 5th, and then to New York on August 7th and 8th. More information about the tour-dates and samples of Bradley’s music is available at his MySpace page.

Amanda Bell