“Images of boxcars, unchained wolves, and “pretty perverts” grace Rebel Yellow, a lyrical menagerie bleeding sadness that settles in your bones. Smith’s music is a loner’s enterprise: a whiskey-waltz, more Woody Guthrie than Eazy-E.”
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This description does a decent job of encapsulating why I enjoy this record.
Doomtree’s Cecil Otter drops solo effort Rebel Yellow
June 10, 2009
