Rating: 5/5
Review:
A brilliant album
This is a brilliant album.
I'm generally not all that keen on live albums, but Chris Smither is
often at his best when playing live and solo, and this is an example: it's a
songwriting and guitar genius at work.
Smither has been making quietly excellent albums for almost
40 years now. His songs are enjoyable,
original, thoughtful and often witty and they are widely admired and recorded
by other songwriters and musicians.
No-one does them quite like he does, though; he's a fabulous guitarist
and a really good singer of his own material and the combination (with his feet
providing a rhythm track) produces something really special. There are endless highlights here, including
an utterly wonderful cover of Killing The Blues, and it's an album I return to
again and again.
If you don't know Chris Smither's work, this would be a
pretty good place to start. If you do,
just buy this; it's the great man performing superbly. Very warmly recommended.
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