MAMA SAM
AND THE JAM
SONGS ABOUT BOYS
Vinyl (Pre-Order) via VLVT HEART RECORDS
OUT 9/16/26 ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS
Everything's Fune
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Most Days
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Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
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See You Tomorrow
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Back Seat
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Everything's Fune 💛 Most Days 💛 Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow 💛 See You Tomorrow 💛 Back Seat 💛
Mama Sam & The Jam bring folk-pop shimmer, sky-high harmonies, soulful songwriting, and grooves that move from dreamy to danceable on their debut full-length album, Songs About Boys. Led by Mama Sam on vocals and guitar, the band blends heart-forward storytelling with lush, psychedelic warmth. At its core, Songs About Boys is a story about starting over, reclaiming desire, and learning how to love yourself again.
After a brain injury, divorce and the Covid shut down turned her life upside down, Mama Sam found herself asking a deceptively simple question: Could she love again? There were crushes, connections, disappointments, adventures, and heartbreaks… and eventually, a song about each one. But beneath musings of looking for love is a bigger story: the journey back to herself.
Songs About Boys traces the messy, funny, sexy, heartbreaking process of putting yourself back out into the world and discovering that the love you're looking for may not be waiting at the end of a date. It may have been there all along. In the end, this isn't really an album about boys. It's an album about self-love… the kind you find when you stop looking for someone else to complete the story and realize you've been the main character all along.
ABOUT MAMA SAM
Born in Wisconsin and raised on campfire sing-a-longs, Mama Sam is a heart-scrubbin’, soul-shakin’ powerhouse. Raw, magnetic, and just a little dangerous, she cuts straight to the bone. In Chicago’s 2000s underground scene, she left scorch marks with bands like Calibrated Crematorium, Willy Dynomite, Cartolinas, and The Flower Beds.
Portland became her next cosmic pit stop. She landed in 2014 and, by 2018, was captaining a psychedelic folk-pop starship called Mama Sam & The Jam. Her songs braid heartbreak and cosmic curiosity with a jolt of emotional electricity that can hush a room mid-sip.
Beyond her own project, Mama Sam has lent her unmistakable pipes and lush vocal arrangements to a bunch of Portland acts, including New Constellations, Ashleigh Flynn and the Riveters, ZWONGR, Mitch and the Melody Makers, and more.
Mama Sam & The Jam sound like Mazzy Star took a field trip with Fleetwood Mac and forgot to come back—drenched in harmony, a little interstellar, and gloriously groove-soaked. It’s vibey, goosebump-raising, frequency-lifting magic.
ABOUT THE JAM
Portland based, Psychedelic Folk Pop band, Mama Sam & The Jam lifts vibrations and gives goosebumps. Catchy melodies and powerful harmonies over trippy guitar and groovy beats leaves listeners feeling high on vibes. The group's fresh and intense synergy makes Mama Sam & The Jam fun to watch as they tug at your heartstrings and make you move! The Jam features Carmen Paradise, Nick Foltz, Justine Renee, Rachael Curtin and Mike Wiser.
The band released their first E.P., “Hearing is Hard” at the end of 2019 with producer Sean Flora. During Covid, Mama Sam recorded and released an E.P. with Ryan Oxford called “Home” in 2021. In 2023, the Jam recorded their first LP with Ricky Wilkins in Portland, Oregon. “Songs About Boys” is set to drop on June 16, 2026 on VLVT HEART RECORDS!
