Sam Miltich - Peasants with Torches (2019)

Hot club style originals with an Eastern European flair.
The concept for this album came from dear friend and visual artist Tom Page. Tom has been creating brilliant art in our northern Minnesota community for many years and has also produced several multimedia arts events which include visual art, music, and writing. I deeply thank him for the use of the title “Peasants With Torches”. It perfectly embodies the feel I hope to achieve with this album.
I want to thank my beautiful wife Katie Marshall and our children Evo and Leo Miltich for their continued love and support. I also need to thank my dear friend Martha Larson for continued love and support of my musical career and this album. Many of the songs on this record have been written in honor of my family members, including my great grandparents, Mare Papa and Andro Miletic’ who were Croatian immigrants from Zadar and Dubrovnik, Croatia (Homesick). There is a song dedicated to my Grandpa Paul Anderson (Grandpa Zeke’s Bossa Nova), as well as a song written for my wife Katie Marshall (Crepescule with Katie). In many ways this album was created to honor my family and ancestors and to keep the memory of them and their culture alive. I dedicate this album to my two beautiful boys, Evo and Leo Miltich (Miletic’).

Tracklist
1. Majstore Majstore Cocek
2. Swing Guitars
3. Homesick
4. Benzinho
5. Crepescule with Katie
6. Now’s the Time to Panic
7. Peasants with Torches
8. Martha’s Dream
9. Evo Banke Cigane Moj
10. Sobornaija
11. Grandpa Zeke’s Bossa Nova
12. Peasant’s Night Out
13. Czardas Miletic
14. Django’s Tiger

Sam Miltich – guitar, prim bisernica, and brac’ tambura
Evan Price – violin
Matthew Miltich – upright bass
Jay Epstein – drum set and percussion.