In case you missed it, check out these great photos from the Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Concerts (including Chris’s 70th birthday concert). (Photo by by Gigi Teensma.)
Signature Sounds Anniversary Photos
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Tickets on Sale for Ashfield, MA Concert
ON SALE NOW: Tickets for Chris’s concert at Ashfield Town Hall (Ashfield, MA) on January 24, 2015 are now available in the Store.
Listen to Mountain Stage Online
If you missed it, Chris’s recent appearance on the NPR program Mountain Stage is available now on the NPR Music website. Photo by Josh Saul
Tribute CD Available Now
In celebration of Chris’s 70th birthday, Signature Sounds has released Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither. The album features friends and peers like Loudon Wainwright III, Bonnie Raitt, and Dave Alvin performing gems plucked from Chris’s deep catalog. Music fans know that Chris has written a countless number of masterful songs during his 50-year career, but hearing this eclectic set of interpretations is a startling reminder of the depth of Smither’s catalog. Hear songs & order your copy now.
World Cafe – Sept 16
The terrific radio program The World Cafe will be broadcasting a session recorded with Chris on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. The show, with host David Dye, can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. Check local listings for where & when the show airs in your area.
You can also listen to the show live on the WXPN Philadelphia stream at 2pm EST at www.xpn.org/music-artist/xpn-stream.
Chris Smither: 50 Years of Music
BIG NEWS – On July 22, Mighty Albert/Signature Sounds will release STILL ON THE LEVEE, a brand new, career-spanning retrospective Chris Smither double CD. Recorded in New Orleans and featuring some very special guests, including Allen Toussaint, Loudon Wainwright III and others, these fresh new takes on some fan favorites are a must for all Smither fans, as well as a terrific introductory CD for new fans! Order it now, though, and we’ll ship it to you on July 15.
Also on July 22, we will release a beautiful coffee table book of Smither lyrics. Titled LYRICS 1966-2012, it is a complete collection of the Chris Smither song catalog. A perfect book to sit down with while listening to your favorite record, it also contains photographs from Chris’s entire career. Again, order now and we’ll ship it to you on July 15.
AND, coming in September, Signature Sounds will release a Chris Smither tribute CD entitled LINK OF CHAIN. Although the tribute CD won’t be available until September, you can actually own it now if you purchase one of the limited quantity Chris Smither 50 Years of Music Premium Packages available right here on the website.
More information about all of these great new items is available in the Online Store.
City of New Orleans Train Trip
Come ride on the City of New Orleans (a train trip from Chicago to New Orleans and back) with Chris and his pal Peter Mulvey, July 24-28, 2014. More information on the Roots on the Rails website.
Rolling Stone JazzFest Recap
Rolling Stone writer David Fricke interviewed Chris at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last weekend, and included the interview as one of his Top 10 highlights of the festival’s first weekend:
Chris Smither, Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage, April 26th, 12:30 P.M.
I conducted this interview but was, in every other way, a magnetized fan in the audience. Smither, a folk-blues singer-songwriter admired and covered by vocalists such as Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris, grew up in New Orleans and told illuminating stories about trying to be a solo cat in a saxophone and trombone city in the Sixties – learning from Lightnin’ Hopkins records and the New Orleans-based bluesman Babe Stovall – then running with fellow New Dylans like Townes Van Zandt. Smither illustrated each tale with brawny picking and the drawling emotion in his voice, in performances of “Devil Got Your Woman” and “Love You Like a Man.” Smither, based in Massachusetts, came home last year to cut a forthcoming two-CD retrospective, Still on the Levee (Signature Sounds). It sounds like he never left.