[Cover photo credit to Xavius Train]

Samuel Wilbur is a singer/songwriter/educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who is a high school social studies teacher by day, and a musician by night. Over the last two decades, Wilbur has built up his songwriting skills and live performances and each year he writes, records, and produces a new full length album.

This time around, Wilbur channeled his frustrations with “the political atmosphere and lack of action on the global climate crisis” into an 11 song album called, The Age. The Age reflects upon living in modern day America “as the wheels of late stage capitalism fall off, while we fall further and further behind the urgency of climate action.” It arrives on January 12th, 2024.

Samuel Wilbur recorded the entire album in his home studio and then enlisted friends Bob Beahen, and Sam Hall to add drums, as well as bringing in vocals from six other Twin Cities based artists.

He shares:

I wanted this album to be more collaborative and include more voices and artists’ perspectives and interpretations.

The album was mixed and mastered by Fathom Lane’s Matt Patrick at The Library Recording Studio in Minneapolis.

Many songs on The Age were also inspired from personal events in Wilbur’s life in the last few years. The titular track, “The Age,” finds Wilbur reflecting on his own mortality, after losing multiple friends to covid, fentanyl, and gun violence in the last few years.