Chris Smither All About The Bones (CD)

(Signature Sounds) 10 tracks, digisleeve

Chris Smithers' 20th album presents a sound and imagery as elemental as the deep, black shadows cast by a glistening moon. Welcomed into a gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, the listener encounters Smithers' inimitable driving guitar and rumbling baritone in the bright parlor, seamlessly blending with producer David Goodrich's tapestry of instruments, Zak Trojano's rock-solid drumming, Betty Soo's translucent harmony vocals and the melancholy tide of jazz legend Chris Cheek's saxophone.

Considered “one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world” (Associated Press), Smither is an American original whose genius lies both in his effortless, distinctive, rippling guitar and in his reinterpretation of acoustic blues as a vehicle for rich, philosophically complex lyrics. The light emanating from the music and lyrics on All About The Bones bathes our own lives in a sublime and welcome clarity.