[show_avatar email=jess@iwenttoashow.com align=left avatar_size=62] I’m excited that IWTAS gets to host Samantha Crain with Old Lights this Wednesday at Off Broadway. Sam’s the type of musician whose songs ease into my head when I’m doing the dishes or getting ready for work. Her latest album, You (Understood), feels well worn, but it’s not flimsy. I want to sit around with my friends and drink beer and smoke cigarettes and listen to it (and I have). Incidentally, that feeling of relaxed abandon is what a Samantha Crain show in St. Louis feels like, especially since one of Sam’s old bandmates is now an established working musician in her own right and, as a member of Old Lights, is opening the show that evening. I have a feeling it’s going to be a special night; I hope that it’s really cold and snowing and that Steve turns on the heater outside. I hope we all drink whiskey to stay warm, and put our phones in our pockets and look at the stage. I hope that many of you reading this will be there with us.

To that end, IWTAS and Off Broadway is giving away a pair of tickets to the show. Here are a few ways you can win:

1) Track down your favorite Samantha Crain OR Old Lights lyric, and leave it in the comment section below. Don’t be afraid to move us, okay?

2) Track down your favorite Samantha Crain OR Old Lights lyric, and leave it as a comment on the Facebook page post for this contest. Again, MOVE. US. WITH. WORDS.

3) Tweet this: “I entered to win tickets from @iwtas to Samantha Crain in #STL: http://iwtas.me/AB0Szw”

Bonus Treats:

Don’t despair if you aren’t chosen as the ticket winner. We’ll ALSO be giving away 3 other prizes to 3 IWTAS readers just for coming to the show on the 25th. The following is up for grabs:

1) “Like Strangers” (2011) by Old Lights on either CD or vinyl (winner’s choice).

2) An Off Broadway t-shirt.

3) An IWTAS logo t-shirt.

Entry deadline is Monday, the 23rd at noon. Winners will be notified via email (or Facebook message, #whathaveyou) soon thereafter.

Now isn’t this all very exciting? Let’s go have some fun together.