Word: smithering
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...Drag On, Chris Smither, Poppy...
Recent albums by three other folk-blues singers, Chris Smither, George Gerdes, and Loudon Wainwright, also bring to public attention exceptional individual talents which have, until now, enjoyed only limited audiences. Chris Smither has often performed in Boston, and, for several reasons, is the most likely of the three to meet wide acceptance...
...Smither's chief assets are a rough, powerful voice, the ability to interpret and arrange music with understanding, and a talent in saying things simply, but not tritely. With the help of Eric Kaz, who plays fine back-up paino and harmonica on Smither's Don't It Drag On, he performs Dylan's "Down in the Flood" more excitingly than Dylan, a usually impossible feat...
...compositions, unlike Yarrow's, deal almost entirely with issues of personal life. He is more influenced by blues which usually convey more of a sense of personal oppression than of social conflict. Hence, Smither writes more about his own perception of the emptiness of life than he does about the hopelessness or perhaps the hope of life in general...
...Jagger and Keith Richards's "No Expectations" sadly consider how ephemeral are moments of love and fulfillment. The dreariness of life and the absence of real intimacy between people flowing past each other in time are caught in "Another War to Find You" and "Don't It Drag On." Smither's disquieting sense of lonely resignation is eloquently sung in lines such...