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album coverJIM SMART: Seven Fathoms

His string tinged rock music lets your brain wander the fine line balance between the pain of old timey musicals and the foolish pleasures of acoustic punk rock, with power pop nods to artists like the Kinks, the Decemberists, Wilco, and Nick Drake.

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Guitar and Pen: more nice comments from Olga

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more nice comments from Olga

I first met Jim and Mitch on a songwriting course in March 1998 and
look
forward to enjoying any new work they produce (I am sure they would do
the
same for me if I could get my act together! LOL!) Anyway, neither of
them
has asked me to come on here and commend their latest offerings, but
believe
me, you'll be missing something if you don't get these two albums.
Immediately! At once!

I found "Mist" very country flavoured with guitar, steel guitar and
violin,
but also cropping up in some of the songs are the ukelele (befitting a
composer who lives in Hawaii), and cello and sax! (Yes! Safe sax!!). I
find
every song quite delightful in its own right/write and it is very
difficult
to single any one of them out - but maybe, for the moment "First Class"
a
wistfully, pissed-off song about a mega rich girlfriend, "Big Bad
World" a
very 20s type ditty and "Van Gogh Stripes" are my favourites. There's a
lot
of interesting imagery in the songs., and believe me, this album will
make
you feel as good as the Hawaiian sunshine!

Jim's also done all the Van-Goghian artwork for the cover of the cd.