05/28/2024
📣 Just Announced | John Smith (UK) | October 26 (Saturday)
dubbed the future of folk music by Pentangle’s John Renbourn, but singer-songwriter John Smith’s unique synthesis of styles puts him halfway across the Atlantic. The Living Kind is his masterpiece in American atmospherics: a true musician’s record, produced by Joe Henry, the man responsible for some of the subtlest Americana of recent times.
“I got immersed in the slipstream,” Smith recalls. “Joe upfront as captain, Ross and Levon at the engines, myself tumbling around on deck singing my guts out and driving the whole thing with my right hand. It was as though I’d finally got out of my own way. It might be the first record I’ve made that really sounds like me, and what I’m trying to do. I tend to think, I hope this is good… With The Living Kind, I know it.”