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Chris Smither - Guitarist

Chris Smither - Guitarist

A profound songwriter, Chris Smither draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets, and philosophers.
Reviewers continue to praise his dazzling guitar work, gravelly voice and songwriting.

Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a
Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother's ukulele. "Uncle Howard," Smither says,
"showed me that if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could
pretty much rule the world." With that bit of knowledge under his belt, he was hooked. "I'd loved acoustic music specifically the blues
ever since I first heard Lightnin' Hopkins' Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn't believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two
guys playing guitar. My style, to a degree, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard."

The most recent recording project is "Still On the Levee" In 2014 recorded in New Orleans at the Music Shed, this career-spanning project
features fresh new takes on 24 iconic songs from his vast career including Devil Got Your Man, the first song he penned, on up to
several of his most recent originals.

Honing a synthesis of folk and blues for 50 years, Chris Smither is truly an American original.
"Smither sings about "the big things life, love, loss in a penetrating and poetic yet unpretentious way." - Acoustic Guitar Magazine

"Smither is an American original a product of the musical melting pot and one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world."Associated Press.