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Chris Smither spent a fair chunk of time in the mid-2010s looking back, culminating in Still on the Levee, a two-disc set from 2014 that found the singer/songwriter revisiting songs he recorded in the past. Arriving four years later, Call Me Lucky functions as something of an answer to that aesthetic, finding the singer/songwriter living squarely in the present. He opens the album with the lively blues shuffle "The Blame's on Me," which is quickly followed by a minor-key rendition of Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," and he effectively sets the pace for the rest of the album. As Call Me Lucky rolls on -- the album proper is ten tracks, but there are six additional "B-Sides" featuring alternate takes of songs on the album, plus an introspective version of the Beatles' "She Said She Said" -- Smither adds some slower, gentler touches (highlighted by the lovely "By the Numbers"), but he retains this same sense of immediacy. By playing so directly and simply -- the album isn't unadorned, there are additional harmonies and guitars, yet it feels like it is -- Chris Smither creates a bracing, intimate record, one that feels filled with earned truths.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chuck Berry, Composer - Chris Smither, MainArtist - ISALEE MUSIC COMPANY, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Isalee Music Company
Chris Smither, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP, MusicPublisher - Chris Smither, David Goodrich, Composer
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP, MusicPublisher - Chris Smither, David Goodrich, Composer
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, MainArtist - MPL MUSIC PUBLISHING INC. OBO EDWIN H. MORRIS & COMPANY, MusicPublisher - Walter Vinson/Lonnie Chatmon, Composer
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 MPL Music Publishing Inc. obo Edwin H. Morris & Company
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP, MusicPublisher - Chris Smither, David Goodrich, Composer
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP, Yeah, But Can Your Monkey Do This?/ASCAP
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Chris Smither, MainArtist - John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Composer
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Copyright Control
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Chris Smither, Composer, MainArtist - Homunculus Music/ASCAP, MusicPublisher
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
Album review
Chris Smither spent a fair chunk of time in the mid-2010s looking back, culminating in Still on the Levee, a two-disc set from 2014 that found the singer/songwriter revisiting songs he recorded in the past. Arriving four years later, Call Me Lucky functions as something of an answer to that aesthetic, finding the singer/songwriter living squarely in the present. He opens the album with the lively blues shuffle "The Blame's on Me," which is quickly followed by a minor-key rendition of Chuck Berry's "Maybellene," and he effectively sets the pace for the rest of the album. As Call Me Lucky rolls on -- the album proper is ten tracks, but there are six additional "B-Sides" featuring alternate takes of songs on the album, plus an introspective version of the Beatles' "She Said She Said" -- Smither adds some slower, gentler touches (highlighted by the lovely "By the Numbers"), but he retains this same sense of immediacy. By playing so directly and simply -- the album isn't unadorned, there are additional harmonies and guitars, yet it feels like it is -- Chris Smither creates a bracing, intimate record, one that feels filled with earned truths.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:30
- Main artists: Chris Smither
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Signature Sounds Recordings
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Folk
2018 Signature Sounds Recordings 2018 Homunculus Music/ASCAP
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