2024 has given us some great singer-songwriter albums that have flown under the radar, from artists like Ani DiFranco and Chris Smither.
Great Singer-Songwriter Albums You May Have Missed: Chris Smither, Ani DiFranco, Heather Little and more
Chris Smither was part of the second wave of singer-songwriters that followed Bob Dylan’s generation in the early ‘70s. Smither, now 79, became semi-famous when Bonnie Raitt covered his debut album’s lubricious uptempo blues, “Love Me Like a Man,” a song also recorded by Diana Krall. It’s still what Smither is best known for, but he has continued to develop as both a writer and performer, and his new album,is merely the latest in a long string of impressive, under-the-radar recordings.
Steve Forbert is another veteran of the ‘70s, when he had a fluke hit single with “Romeo’s Tune.” He has had an up-and-down career since then, and his new album,reminds us of his gift for coming up with hummable tunes and whimsical lyrics. But it also reveals his reluctance to dig deeper than whimsy and earworms. On this outing, his light, chipper tenor riffs on the boring colors of modern cars, the benefits of procrastination and walking in the woods.
Moreover, the opening track “Shady Grove and the Buddha” begins with two monumental singer-guitarists: Doc Watson and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Baker’s beguiling stream-of-consciousness soliloquy eventually leads to Siddhartha Gautama, who might have become a singer-songwriter himself if he’d been born in West North Carolina or East Texas. Something similar happens when he starts talking about coyotes, rabbits, drought or jet planes, allowing his imagination to take him where it will.
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