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| 1. | Train Home
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| 2. | Origin of Species
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| 3. | The Devil's Real
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| 4. | Link of Chain
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| 5. | Happier Blue
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| 6. | Interview I
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| 7. | Drive You Home Again
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| 8. | Leave the Light On
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| 9. | Sittin' On Top Of The World
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| 10. | Small Revelations
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| 11. | Love You Like A Man
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| 12. | Interview II
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| 13. | Father's Day
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| 14. | No Love Today
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| 15. | Diplomacy
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| 16. | Caveman
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| 17. | Statesboro Blues
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On a late spring evening in 2007, Chris Smither performed two concerts for an intimate audience in Lyme, Connecticut. Footage from these shows plus excerpts from a rare concert Chris performed with a full band at The Somerville Theatre in Boston in 2006 are brought together in this first-ever concert video from Smither. The DVD captures Chris performing in his usual solo style, with feet mic for percussion, from the Lyme concerts, and backed up marvelously by multi-instrumentalist David Goodrich,
drummer Mike Piehl, mandolinist Sean Staples, vocalist Anita Suhanin, and bassist Lou Ulrich in Somerville. The concert footage is enhanced with a never-before released personal interview, providing the viewer with additional insight into Chris' performance techniques and influences. The video will be available at all US retail and select online outlets. Honing a synthesis of folk and blues for more than 40 years, Chris Smither is truly an American original. His music draws deeply from blues and American folk music, modern poets and humanist philosophers. A profound songwriter, a blistering guitarist and, as he puts it, a "one-man band to the bone," Chris melds the styles of his two major influences, Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt, into his own signature guitar sound. Critically acclaimed, Chris tours solo all over the globe, performing 150+ concerts a year. Perhaps known best for having written the songs "Love You Like a Man" and "I Feel the Same" (both recorded by Bonnie Raitt), Chris' music has also been covered by John Mayall, Emmylou Harris, and most recently, jazz great Diana Krall. Reviewers praise his dazzling guitar work, gravelly voice, and sophisticated songwriting.
* Chris Smither - Arranger
* Jim Olsen - Executive Producer
* Keith Richardson - Audio Supervisor
Chris Smither
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 11, 1944 in Miami, FL
Genre: Rock
Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Blues-Rock, Folk-Blues, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Blues
Like John Hammond and a handful of other musicians whose careers began in the 1960s blues revival, guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Smither can take pride in the fact that he's been there since the beginning. Except for a few years when he was away from performing in the 1970s, Smither has been a mainstay of the festival, coffee house and club circuits around the U.S., Canada and Europe since his performing career began in earnest in the coffeehouses in Boston in the spring of 1966.
Smither is best known for his great songs, items like "Love You like a Man" and "I Feel the Same," both of which have been recorded by guitarist Bonnie Raitt. Raitt and Smither got started at about the same time in the coffeehouse scene around Boston, though Smither was born and raised in New Orleans, the son of university professors.
Smither's earliest awareness of blues and folk music came from his parents' record collection. In a 1992 interview, he recalled it included albums by Josh White, Susan Reed and Burl Ives. After a short stint taking piano lessons, Smither switched to ukulele after discovering his mother's old instrument in a closet. The young Smither was passionately attached to the ukulele, and now, years later, it helps to explain the emotion and expertise behind his unique finger-picking guitar style. Smither discovered blues music when he was 17 and heard a Lightnin' Hopkins album, Blues in the Bottle. The album was a major revelation to him and he subsequently spent weeks trying to figure out the intricate guitar parts he'd heard on that record. Smither moved to Boston after realizing he was a big fish in a small pond in the New Orleans folkcoffeehouse circuit of the mid-'60s. Also, acoustic blues pioneer Ric Von Schmidt had recommended Smither check out the Boston folk/blues scene.
Smither recorded his first couple of albums for the Poppy label in 1970 and 1971, I'm a Stranger Too and Don't It Drag On. In 1972, Smither recorded a third album, Honeysuckle Dog, for United Artists, that was never released. On the sessions for that album, he was joined in the studio by his old friends Bonnie Raitt and Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John. After a long bout with alcohol, Smither launched his recording career again in the late '80s, although he was performing through the whole time he wasn't sober.
His return to a proper recording career, due to a deal with Flying Fish Records, didn't happen again until 1991, when the label released Another Way to Find You, a folk-blues album. Smither did record for Adelphi label in 1984, It Ain't Easy, which has since been re-released on compact disc. Since then, he's more than proved his mettle as an enormously gifted songwriter, releasing albums of mostly his own compositions for the Flying Fish and Hightone labels. Smither's other albums include Happier Blue (1993, Flying Fish), and Up on the Lowdown (1995, HighTone Records).
Any of Smither's Flying Fish releases or his HighTone releases (including 1999's Drive You Home Again and 2000s Live As I'll Ever Be) are worthy of careful examination by guitarists and students of all schools of blues music. Smither is still to some extent an unheralded master of modern acoustic blues. Fortunately, his festival bookings through the 1990s have elevated his profile to a higher level than he's ever enjoyed previously.
---Richard Skelly, All Music Guide |
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