Darden Smith
Sat, Oct 07
|Waring
Over the course of his remarkable three-and-a-half decade career, Smith has released 15 critically lauded studio albums, landed singles on both the country and pop charts (including the Top 10 hit “Loving Arms”), penned a symphony, scored works for theater and dance, published a widely celebrated bo
Time & Location
Oct 07, 2023, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Waring, 8 Manning St, Waring, TX 78074, USA
About the event
Open and empty. That’s how Darden Smith describes the west Texas landscape that inspired his wildly creative new multi-media project, . Comprising a new studio record, a book of photography, lyrics, and essays, and an accompanying album of readings set to music, the collection is an immersive journey through a world both real and imagined, a place of mystery and mythology, possibility and longing. Like his photographs, Smith’s writing is steeped in isolation, though rarely lonely; timeless, yet acutely aware of the hours and minutes whizzing by like mileposts on the highway. The songs on are spare and deliberate, often marked by a distinct sense of motion and transience, and the performances are similarly raw and intimate, reflecting the desolate beauty of the region that so captured Smith’s imagination as he crisscrossed it time and again throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.Western SkiesWestern Skies
Over the course of his remarkable three-and-a-half decade career, Smith…