July 5: I've finally uploaded my new album, Bad Apple, to CDBaby for digital distribution, but they now have this additional racket where they place your album in their "inspection queue", which you will not even be remotely surprised to discover you can pay to expedite. The unexpedited process takes at least two weeks - and I know this because I submitted it two weeks ago, and it hasn't emerged from the other end of the queue yet, no doubt blinking furiously at the prolonged absence of sunlight. In any case, in the meantime, you can stream it or buy it here or download it here. And you can come to the next session of David Scott's songwriter series at the Armory, which I'm hosting.

"He's awesome!"
- Paul Duffy, Front Street Coffeehouse

"You are among the best entertainers I've ever listened to."
- audience member

"I think your psyche must be a very interesting place."
- unidentified audience member

"...a local treasure..."
- Club Passim Calendar

"[Sam Bayer's] bass voice rumbles with mellifluous ease through each tune... Consider yourself blessed whenever you have the opportunity to experience his music!"
- Julie Woods

"Sam Bayer's songs have the power to grip my heart and demand my attention."
- Susan Master

"One of the finest songwriters in the state, if not the region."
- Steve Rapson

"Sam Bayer's songs drag us, kicking and screaming, into the 'Tune Town' that is America in the twenty-first century."
- John Boehmer

"...original songs rich in imagery and rhythm, sung like honey on sandpaper."
- Chris Pahud, Wessagussett Coffeehouse