Artist Corey Smith
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Corey Smith
Want to feel nostalgic and sentimental about those beer-slammin’, football-game-attendin’ college days before they’re even over? That’s precisely what’s offered by Georgia songwriter Corey Smith, who, according to his bio, honed his sweepingly earnest acoustic tunes at keg parties in the college town of Athens. Unlike other singer-songwriters aiming at that campus crowd, Smith is of and for it, strumming and crooning fondly on his latest, The Broken Record, in a way that reminds us that even Busch Light-stained meatheads can have hearts of gold. He’s also a reminder that, even in a city that produced The B-52s, Vic Chesnutt, and the Elephant 6 collective (not to mention R.E.M.), there’s still a market for simplistic party songs.
Updated 01/17/2012
