Blessed with a seemingly effortless melodic gift and one of the warmest, most penetrating vocal deliveries in American music, Darden Smith has somehow eluded significant enduring attention in his two-decade career. His restless stylistic evolution — and the inevitable label-hopping […]
Since his 1986 debut Native Soil, Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith has bobbed up-and-down and in-and-out with the tides of country fashion. Although a consistently earnest, penetrating tunesmith, he has released seven discs on six labels. Along the way, he’s been […]
As Darden Smith’s penchant for pop melodicism carries him ever further beyond the corral of rootsy Texas tradition, his first album of fresh material in six years can be heard as both a creative renewal and a return to form. […]
Like a Texas version of Holden Caulfield hanging out at The Last Picture Show, Darden Smith has always been a dependably weary, yet persistent, chronicler of regret, melancholy and the knowing inevitability of the next day’s burdens. This sublimely gifted, […]
Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith may be best-known for joining forces with Boo Hewerdine (leader of English band The Bible) to form an oddly successful transatlantic Americana act: the Hewerdine/Smith album Evidence is a minor classic (recently reincarnated by Nashville indie […]
