Artist Sahara Smith
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Erik Valind
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Sahara Smith
Sahara Smith’s résumé promises a pleasant stroll through the waving grain of MOR alt-country: featured on Prairie Home Companion at age 15; fielding advice from sepia-toned producer T Bone Burnett by 21; releasing her debut album, Myth Of The Heart, shortly thereafter, a record that all but earned Smith instant comparisons to past Burnett charges Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. But Smith’s smoky voice is more than just a companion to your parents’ copy of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and the songs on Myth Of The Heart work in several dark shades. There are anguished, neo-noir depths to these songs of love, loss, and lust, proving Smith is a more compelling figure than her biographical details imply.
Updated 11/16/2010
