This Is My Story, This Is My Song

This Is My Story, This Is My Song Artist: Sonny Smith
Label: Jackpine Social Club
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 800223600328
EAN: 0800223600328
ASIN: B00009WVTM


Release Date: 2003-07-22

This Is My Story, This Is My Song


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Tracks:

  1. I Tumbled
  2. Way to Go
  3. Milk Cow
  4. Life in Flames
  5. I Pushed It
  6. Black Dog
  7. Over There
  8. X-Man
  9. Gathers
  10. Dead End Road
  11. Song
  12. This Is My Story, This Is My Song

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars one of my favorite albums.......2004-09-10

Gorgeous album, wonderfully paced. I am especially fond of "way to go" (one of my favorite songs in the world), "milk cow," "i pushed it," "x-man" and the title song. I love how simple it sounds, how it rolls on its own, and how much wisdom it has.

5 out of 5 stars This is not your grandpappy's folk.......2004-02-18

Or maybe, actually, it is.

I rarely give five star reviews, but this album is so overwhelming and undernoticed, it deserves every bit of love I can give it. The songs all focus on Sonny Smith's perfectly bruised voice. Though he's a relatively young man, his voice recalls Willie Nelson and Tom Waits. And his songs mix old-folk song structure with varied influences and modern themes. A perfect example is the song X-Men, which begins "wish I was an X-Men/Living in Detroit" and concludes with a familiar-sounding "all of the day/and all of the night/all of the night and day" refrain.

Though Smith's voice sounds as though it was raised on whiskey and cigarettes, most of the songs on the album end up being more sweet than bitter. The most memorable tracks feature almost African-sounding backing vocals (a la Paul Simon), or tear-jerking violin over the always sparce guitar arrangements.

In sum, this album has a whole lot of soul, and sounds more like something from the 40's or 50's than the 21st Century. It blows most alt.country stuff out of the water. Unless your musical tastes are exclusively rap, metal, or mainstream radio, I implore you to buy this album. You will not be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Knuckles Avec Sombreros ~ Gashead
  2. At Home With the Groovebox ~ Various Artists
  3. Destroy Me, Lover ~ Pain Teens
  4. Family Business ~ Pony Club
  5. Best of the 70's: Hits of 1971 ~ Various Artists
  6. Prisoner of Hope ~ Chris Falson
  7. Love 15 ~ Majesty Crush
  8. Blues with a Feeling ~ Steve Hackett
  9. 1975 ~ Duster
  10. Essence

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Thelonious Monk Trio (20 Bit Mastering) ~ Thelonious Monk Trio

A CoffeeHouse Christmas ~ Brandon Fields

The Jackie Mac Attack Live ~ Jackie McLean

Simple ~ The Catholics

Yes, Yes, Nonet ~ Lee Konitz

Untitled ~ Ami Suzuki

Wenn Du Fort Bist: Lieder Von der Liebe und Vom Tod ~ Konstantin Wecker

Phenomena ~ Tica

Tango for Export ~ Various Artists

Novos Tempos ~ Zico & Zeca