Chris Smither

Chris Smither's 'Hundred Dollar Valentine' Due in June

Source: conqueroo
April 2, 2012

First long-player by fingerpicker/singer/songwriter to feature all original songs features session support from Morphine, Groovasaurus, The Lemonheads players BOSTON, MA: There are such things as the cosmic blues. Janis Joplin once recorded a song by that name — she spelled it kosmik. But Chris Smither lives them. Smither's cosmic blues are on full display in Hundred Dollar Valentine, a brilliant amalgam made of equal parts past, present and future. It is music that traces its roots back deep into tradition, ...
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Chris Smither in Philadelphia 10/06 & 10/07, New CD Out 09/19

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2006

CHRIS SMITHER'S LEAVE THE LIGHT ON DRAWS FROM BLUES AND FOLK, POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS

12th album due on Signature Sounds September 19

BOSTON, MA -- Chris Smither, whose songs have been covered by Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, to name a few, is one of a handful of musicians active today who were on the scene during the folk / blues renaissance of the '60s. Born in Miami and raised in New Orleans - where he first heard ...
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Chris Smither's 'Leave The Light On' Draws from Blues, Folk, Poets and Philosophers

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2006

BOSTON, MA -- Chris Smither, whose songs have been covered by Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, to name a few, is one of a handful of musicians active today who were on the scene during the folk / blues renaissance of the '60s. Born in Miami and raised in New Orleans - where he first heard the blues - before heading on to Boston at the onset of that city's late '60s musical greening, Smither has carved a ...
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Chris Smither's 'Leave the Light On' Draws from Blue and Folk, Poets and Philosophers

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2006

12th album due on Signature Sounds September 19

Chris Smither, whose songs have been covered by Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, to name a few, is one of a handful of musicians active today who were on the scene during the folk/blues renaissance of the '60s. Born in Miami and raised in New Orleans -- where he first heard the blues -- before heading on to Boston at the onset of that city's late '60s musical greening, Smither ...
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