Choctaw singer-songwriter Samantha Crain is back with the debut of ‘B-Attitudes’, the fifth single and final preview of her forthcoming seventh studio album Gumshoe. “I want a place to call my home // somewhere I belong // a place that I can care for, that will hold me ‘til I die,” she laments in the ambling folk track – a rumination on our physical and emotional connections with land, the innate desire to care for it as our own, and the modern barriers that keep us from doing so. It’s a fitting next chapter for Gumshoe, an 11-song record flowing with burgeoning curiosity and desire for symbiotic community. Marking Samantha’s first original solo release since 2021’s I Guess We Live Here Now EP, Gumshoe releases in-full on May 2 via Real Kind Records.

Samantha has also released a music video for ‘B-Attitudes’ filmed within her home of Oklahoma; from the streets of downtown Shawnee to the town’s neighboring rural highlands. The fuzzy VHS-esque visual marks her latest collaboration with Dylan Friese-Greene, who directed videos for several of Gumshoe’s previously released singles ‘Dart,’ ‘Ridin’ Out The Storm,’ and ‘Dragonfly.’

“In Oklahoma, where I live, there are open spaces, empty fields, huge areas of untouched land everywhere, yet almost none of it is accessible or available to walk on or explore,” says Samantha about the inspiration behind ‘B-Attitudes.’ “It’s all private property. As someone whose biggest monetary asset is a Martin guitar, I don’t have much sense of ownership of things or places. But when I see how much of the space that surrounds me is completely off limits to me and out of my reach, I can’t help but want a piece of that. That’s what B-Attitudes is about. I would rather it all be open to everyone, but if not that, I want my own little bit of earth to form a bond with, to care for, to exist on.”