An Evening with Chris Smither – POSTPONED TO 4/17

@ Due to illness, Chris Smither’s March 7 performance has been moved to Friday, April 17. All tickets purchased for March 7 will be automatically honored for the new date. No action is required. .stk-e7b108b {height:25px !important;} Doors open an hour before showtime. .stk-ede71a3 {height:25px !important;} ADVANCE PURCHASE: Total ticket price at checkout is $53.00 (inclusive of $8.00 service fee) AT THE DOOR: $55 All surcharges and member discounts will be calculated at checkout. Click Here to learn how our ticket surcharge supports OLS. The sound and imagery of the 20th release by Chris Smither, All About the Bones, (release date: May 3, 2024 on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. The listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, and there in the lamplit parlor confronts the band, a minimalist skeleton crew: Smither’s inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone are joined seamlessly to producer David Goodrich’s carpetbag of instruments, Zak Trojano’s rock-steady, primal drumming, BettySoo’s diaphanous harmony vocals, and the flat, mournful flood of Jazz legend Chris Cheek’s saxophone. Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton MA by Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., the Hold Steady) All About the Bones has a feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once. Smither and his longtime producer David Goodrich have been refining their musical conversation for decades, both in the studio and onstage, and by now, their bond verges on the telepathic. Goodrich plays on nearly every track. His sound is by now so translucent that it seems to function as a swath of silence, allowing the songs to burn like ciphers in the crackling air. And oh, the songs on All About the Bones. Chris Smither, after six decades of sharpening his knife as a songwriter, can at this point open damn near anything with a flick of his wrist. God and…