Format Details: Vinyl Edition
Release Date: 07 April 2017
Label: Compass
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 766397468129
Format Details: Vinyl Edition
Release Date: 07 April 2017
Label: Compass
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 766397468129
Description
Darden Smith is a singer-songwriter based in Austin whose thirty-year career redefines what it means to be a musician as the founder and creative director of SongwritingWith:Soldiers, a nonprofit that pairs award-winning songwriters with veterans and service members in retreat settings to craft songs about combat and the return home. Rooted in the songwriting traditions of his home state of Texas, he is described by All Music Guide as "a singer-songwriter blessed with an uncommon degree of intelligence, depth, and compassion."
His latest album, Everything, features musicians Roscoe Beck (bass), JJ Johnson (drums), Charlie Sexton (guitars), Michael Ramos (keyboards) and David Mansfield (mandolin, pedal steel and strings), with vocal help from James House, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Bonnie Bishop, and Kelly Willis. Recorded in Austin, the collection features songs written by Smith and with collaborators House, Radney Foster, Matraca Berg, Bruce Robison, and Jay Clementi.
Mary Gauthier says of the album, "Darden Smith has made a beautiful new record, filled with hope and love and heartfelt tenderness... This music is magic, and who doesn't need a little magic right now?"
Description
Darden Smith is a singer-songwriter based in Austin whose thirty-year career redefines what it means to be a musician. In addition to fifteen critically acclaimed albums, Smith continues to break new ground using the craft of songwriting in education, entrepreneurship, and in service to others. He is the founder and creative director of SongwritingWith:Soldiers, a nonprofit that pairs award-winning songwriters with veterans and service members in retreat settings to craft songs about combat and the return home.
His latest album, Everything, is now available in vinyl LP and features musicians Roscoe Beck (bass), JJ Johnson (drums), Charlie Sexton (guitars), Michael Ramos (keyboards) and David Mansfield (mandolin, pedal steel and strings), with vocal help from James House, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Bonnie Bishop, and Kelly Willis. Recorded in Austin during August 2016, the collection features songs written by Smith and with collaborators House, Radney Foster, Matraca Berg, Bruce Robison, and Jay Clementi.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Woody Platt
Mike Farris
Mindy Smith
Rebecca Frazier
Alison Brown
John McEuen
Altan
Missy Raines
Darden Smith
Darden Smith
Darden Smith