“Growing up in Seattle mere blocks from the neon lights of the Guild 45th Cinema, Mr. Sam, aka songwriter Sam Gelband, often took himself to the movies. Not too picky for mid 2000’s Sandler or the latest Star Wars effort, Sam knew what he liked about it- and it was mostly just that he was at the movies. Though not aware at the time, he was already practicing the lifestyle and philosophy that colors the songs of his band, Mr Sam and the People People. Their songs are ones of joy and simple pleasure, love and bicycles, friends and memories. Finding what you love and holding onto it. What you care about and celebrating it. But it’s not positivity with blinders on its eyes, its happiness in spite of an unforgiving world. The music of Mr Sam is not created from sunshine and caramels but from a bittersweet reality, an acknowledgment that all we really have in this life are the sweet moments we allow for ourselves and share with one another, people to people. An afternoon with the one you love, a night around a fire with your oldest buds, a solo trip to the cinema; the times that bring us joy by way of joy for the sake of joy. The stuff that keeps us going. That’s what being a People is about.”

- Chris Acker

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