Samantha Fish, Cedric Burnside and Jon Spencer, photo by Marc Millman

Samantha Fish rolled into Brooklyn, N.Y. on Saturday, December 20, for the penultimate performance in her action-packed Shake ‘Em on Down Tour. Now in its third year, the blues-rock firebrand’s annual winter outing featured support from Mississippi Hill Country blues torchbearer Cedric Burnside and pathbreaking noise, garage and punk-blues powerhouse Jon Spencer, both of whom offered full sets before Fish’s headline appearance at Brooklyn Bowl.

Charged up after a month on the road, Fish shot into her Saturday night special with her ripping fan-favorite take on MC5’s “Kick Out the Jams,” then turned to her Grammy-nominated 2025 studio album Paper Doll with the title track. The musician packed six more tracks from her latest release into her performance, including “I’m Done Runnin’,” “Fortune Teller” and “Dream Girl,” and fleshed out the mix with older hits like her 2019 Kill Or Be Kind cut “Bulletproof.” After closing her set with the title track from her 2013 album Black Wind Howlin’, featuring an intro tease of R.L. Burnside’s “I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down,” Fish called Burnside’s son and Spencer to the stage for an encore honoring the late bluesman again on “Goin’ Down South.”

Fish will wrap up her year of touring in New Orleans tonight, where she’ll join the Stanton Moore and Friends Holiday Extravaganza alongside Erica Falls, Jelly Joseph, Glen David Andrews, Brad Walker and more. Find tickets and more information on Fish’s 2026 tour itinerary at samanthafish.com.