Chris Smither

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Chris Smither

April 15, 2026 Paul Russell 0

Chris Smither is one of the most consistent artists working in americana, having started playing music professionally in 1966 after he saw some pivotal artists playing live and feeling energised to do the same thing. These […]

AUK Back Pages No.7

August 29, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

We round off 2006, incidentally the fifth year of AUK, an anniversary we forgot to mention in Back Pages No. 5 which looked back at the first four months of 2006 although it was noted in […]

Chris Smither “All About the Bones”

May 3, 2024 FredArnold 0

A rather stunning album from this soon-to-be octogenarian, his songwriting and playing talents as yet undimmed. You might be inclined to overlook Chris Smither when the names of the great singer-songwriters of the last fifty years […]

Small Venue Heroes: Chris Smither

July 26, 2022 Clint West 3

Our ‘Small Venue Heroes’ feature could almost have been invented for Chris Smither. Since before releasing his debut album ‘I’m a Stranger Too!’ way back in 1970, Smither has been working the folk clubs, art houses […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers