DRESSED in a 1950s-style black and white polka dot dress, fishnet stockings and boots - her Minnie Mouse look, according to Sam - this natural and unpretentious performer treated a packed Brook to a memorable evening.
It was just Sam at the keyboards, letting rip with that soaring and emotive voice on over a dozen songs starting with the lyrical Breathe and Learn To Listen.
A selection alternated between wistful, soulful and bluesy, and, of course, included the dramatic Stop! which first brought her fame in the 1980s.
After taking up the ukelele and the bass guitar for a couple of numbers, Sam got really bluesy towards the end of her set, getting the audience to stamp and clap to help her with an unaccompanied version of the old Bessie Smith song Electric Chair.
A great gig made even more pleasurable by highly original support band Moses.
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