New Tunes!

Sam Frazier & The Side Effects have a couple of new tunes up on Bandcamp. During the Covid lockdown, we weren’t gigging so we used the time to familiarize ourselves with recording software. Cliff Greeson (drums, background vocals), Chris Micca (bass, background vocals) and I (guitars, lead vocals) all recorded our parts at our respective homes and sent them to… Read more →

SE Sessions!

S. E. Systems, a world class audio/lighting/video production service located in Greensboro, NC, is doing something new. Tomorrow, at 9am, they’re kicking off Season One of their SE Sessions series. And they’re kicking it off with your’s truly! I can’t tell you how honored I am to be involved with this series. And I’m really looking forward to checking out… Read more →

2019 NC Folk Festival

The NC Folk Festival is one of the best things to come to Greensboro since…ever! If you haven’t attended yet, do yourself a favor and just come downtown and walk around and take it all in. Thursday, September 5 at 7:00pm, Laurelyn Dossett and friends kick it off with their “Songs of Hope & Justice. Then Friday, Saturday & Sunday (September… Read more →

The State of Things

I love to play for an attentive audience. And I love to play live on the radio. Last Tuesday, I got to play for an attentive audience while live on the radio! So this, for me, was very cool. Thanks to Frank Stasio, Robin Copley and the staff at the State of Things!   https://www.wunc.org/post/little-bit-genius-songwriting-sam-frazier Read more →

Back in the Day…

This photo, I believe, was taken sometime in the very early 80’s in the women’s bathroom in a bar called The Jot ‘Em Down Store, which was right across the street from Greensboro College. This was an early iteration of the band, Tornado (from the left: Frank Worrell, Rebekah Raker, Bobby Kelly, Keith Roscoe, Sam Frazier, Dennis Worley & Cliff Greeson).… Read more →

The Sam Frazier Band

What do you do when you have a bunch of tunes and you want to perform them with a band? But, the folks you like to play with are very good. So they’re very busy and they can’t always do it when you want ’em to do it. You like to perform solo and will do so whenever the opportunity presents… Read more →