Zak Smith Live

The Glasswerk.com album review comes at us with, “If hymns were rock music sung to worship whatever you happened to believe in then it would sound like Zak Smith. That’s not to say this music has anything to do with religion, except that it is a form of salvation for it’s creator.”

Good writing. I would also have to agree that this is pretty good stuff for a guy with a raw voice and “a bag full of good guitar hooks.” (Here Comes the Flood).

“We Bid You Goodnight” from Deep Water (2008) is somewhat like classic rock. It sort of reminds me of what The Band did with rock-and-roll a few years back, and even has some keyboard that Garth would be proud of.

As Rome Burned (2007) has been described as “an intense title for an equally heavy hitting album that sounds quasi classic rock and pretty lyrically savvy for a 24-year-old new artist from Montclair, New Jersey who fittingly names Bruce Springsteen as one of his heroes.” (Nirvanastyle.com)

Try “Under Your Possession” for a taste of this rural rock sound. Hard to believe that he’s from Montclair, New Jersey. Is that in the country?

“Traitor’s Way” is solid.

Seems we might want to listen a bit more closely to this fellow.

Zak Smith Live on MySpace

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