The year 2024 is shaping up to be a big one for Chris Smither. The folk-blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and foot percussionist released his 20th LP, All About the Bones, on May 3 and turns 80 on ...

Singer Chris Smither is out with his latest album "All About the Bones." The 80-year-old reflects on his career, including Bonnie Raitt's cover of his song "Love You Like a Man" with NPR's Don Gonyea.

First long-player by fingerpicker/singer/songwriter to feature all original songs features session support from Morphine, Groovasaurus, The Lemonheads players BOSTON ...

Chris Smither is not afraid to have some fun with death. “I think about it, and everyone I know that’s anything like as old as I am does too,” says the singer-songwriter about his typically wry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris Smither started as a would-be anthropology major at a couple colleges, but then became fascinated, even obsessed, with ...

The song is classic Smither, highlighting his rumbling baritone, foot stomps, wry lyrics and Delta-blues style picking. PopMatters writes, "'All About The Bones' is peak Chris Smither, a song that ...

Although we’re a few years past 2020 and the COVID pandemic closures, it’s still fascinating for me to ask musicians how they spent that hazy period of time. Some formed bands or wrote songs. For ...

Chris Smither learned to play music in New Orleans on his mother's ukulele. He loved the blues as a kid, but he started his career as a folk artist in Cambridge, Mass., in the music scene there. That ...

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