Sam appeared for a number of years with tribute artist Gilbert Gauthier in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gilbert performed tribute shows to Neil Diamond and Frank Sinatra. Sam, however, always appeared as himself. In 2006, Sam moved back to Birmingham to attend to family matters. Shortly after his return, his older sister and younger brother died. Since that time, Sam has been working steadily on a new blues project with producers Don Mosley and Les Alexander at Sound of Birmingham Studios in Birmingham, Alabama. The CD was scheduled to be released internationally in the first quarter of 2012 on the Transmedia Music label; also in Birmingham.