Darden Smith

Multimedia (Book/Music) review – Darden Smith “Western Skies”

March 30, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

A Multi-Media release that combines photography, lyrics, essays and songs to paint a bigger picture. Back in 1989, I stumbled across a very interesting album. “Evidence” saw The Bible’s Boo Hewerdine teamed with a young Texan […]

Interview: Darden Smith on why songs by themselves aren’t enough to explain Western Skies

March 24, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

How an old Polaroid and the pandemic helped reinvigorate a thirty-plus-year career. Austin-based songwriter Darden Smith has always done things his way, rather than following the norms of the music business. Texas-born Smith came to Austin […]

Darden Smith announces latest work – new single and book available now

March 17, 2022 Emily Dongray 1

The Texan singer-songwriter Darden Smith has announced his ambitious new multimedia project ‘Western Skies‘. Comprising a new studio record, a book of photography, lyrics, and essays, the project is an immersive journey through fact and fiction, […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 19

May 19, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

In which your intrepid correspondent travels back in time. It had been bothering me for a while but last week I finally summoned up the resolve to deal with an issue that had been concerning me […]

Forgotten Artists – Darden Smith

March 16, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

Darden Smith should’ve been a big star. Blessed with an ability to write great songs and being a rangy, good looking Texan it’s hard to believe that his future as a top singer songwriter wasn’t assured. […]

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