Flac (tracks) | Blues | 34:26 | 201MB
The 20th release by Chris Smither, All About the Bones, (Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. Featuring eight brand new Chris Smither songs and Smither renditions of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Calm Before the Storm” and also Tom Petty’s “Time to Move On”, the listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, and there in the lamplit parlor confronts the band, a minimalist skeleton crew: Smither’s inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone are joined seamlessly to producer David Goodrich’s carpetbag of instruments, Zak Trojano’s rock-steady, primal drumming, BettySoo’s diaphanous harmony vocals, and the flat, mournful flood of Jazz legend Chris Cheek’s saxophone. Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton MA by Justin Pizzoferrato All About the Bones has a feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once.
Tracklist
1. Chris Smither – All About the Bones
2. Chris Smither – Digging the Hole
3. Chris Smither – Still Believe in You
4. Chris Smither – If Not for the Devil
5. Chris Smither – Calm Before the Storm
6. Chris Smither – Down in Thibodaux
7. Chris Smither – In the Bardo
8. Chris Smither – Close the Deal
9. Chris Smither – Completion
10. Chris Smither – Time to Move On