Hundred Dollar Valentine

Hundred Dollar Valentine

• Music

Smither s cosmic blues are on full display in Hundred Dollar Valentine, a brilliant amalgam made of equal parts past, present and future. It is music that traces its roots back deep into<br>tradition, anchors its rhythms and textures in today, and reaches forward into the future, asking the Big Questions - why am I here? Is there purpose to all of this or is it just a spinning cascade of random moments? And he does it all with six strings, an insistent, understated groove and a sly wink letting you know that we may all enter and leave this world alone, but<br>that don t mean we can t have a good time while we re here.<br><br>Hundred Dollar Valentine, Smither s twelfth studio disc, is a masterwork. It sports the unmistakeable sound he s made his trademark: fingerpicked acoustic guitar and evocative sonic<br>textures meshed with spare, brilliant songs, delivered in a bone-wise, hard-won voice.