Author: Jonah Smith

Brand: Image Entertainment

Format: Import

Release Date: 2006-06-27

Details: Product description Smith, Jonah ~ Jonah Smith Amazon.ca On his third, but first nationally distributed CD, blues-soul-jazzman Smith explores the emotional and sonic landscape of romantic failure with affecting results. Wedding big doses of urban angst to warm melodies, hooky choruses, and disarmingly wistful lyrics, he proves the perfect wallow partner for insomniacs and the recently rejected. But with a bonus: His open-hearted stanzas conjure black angels, a menstruating Virgin Mary, and the reluctant release from earthly things, suggesting if not a nobility through suffering, a spiritual journey through struggle. ("A damaged soul will never stay too long.") Smith makes the most of his modest vocal gifts, singing in a white-boy-wishing-he-were-black tenor, sometimes calling to mind early Steve Winwood ("Killing Time ") or Van Morrison circa "Brown Eyed Girl" ("Everything Is New"). He's so charmingly pensive that listeners will pray he gets the girl before record's end, knowing instead he'll trace the cautious bliss of infatuation ("Stay Awhile") to the inevitable numbness of parting ("My Morning Scene"). Guests Garth Hudson, Bill Frisell, and Carrie Rodriguez add texture, color, and consolation. --Alanna Nash

UPC: 014381319620

EAN: 0014381319620

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood