With its lyrical thunderbolts, lightning-flash fretwork and ground-shaking grooves, 'Black Wind Howlin' is a record to blow your roof off – and Samantha Fish has stood at the eye of the hurricane.

The sophomore effort flips a finger at the cliche of the "difficult second album", firing off 12 classic tracks that chart Samantha's evolution as songwriter, gunslinger and lyricist. She can be brutally rocking on cuts like the tour bus snapshot of "Miles To Go", swaggering on "Sucker Born" and venomous during "Go To Hell."

And yet, elsewhere, backed by the versatile production of Royal Southern Brotherhood guitarist and longtime collaborator Mike Zito, you'll find Samantha shifting gears to the aching slide-guitar balladry of "Over You" and the redemptive country strum "Last September."