Forty Acres is very happy to welcome Chris Smither back to the stage at Five Oaks clubhouse on Thursday, April 30, 2025, at 8 pm.
All About the Bones is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. Featuring eight brand new Chris Smither songs and Smither renditions of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Calm Before the Storm” and also Tom Petty’s “Time to Move On”, the listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street.
Premier Guitar said “Chris Smither is doing some of his finest work. His vivid lyrics and resonant baritone on his new recording, All About the Bones, are elevated by his inimitable guitar style.As befitting a man about to turn 80, many of the songs on All About the Bones deal with love and death, such as “In the Bardo.” The bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist term that refers to the intermediate state after death and before rebirth. Smither says,” I was more than halfway into this, with all kinds of lines and material, but I just felt lost. And that’s when it occurred to me—where am I lost? I’m lost in the bardo. Once I recognized that, I could put the whole thing together.”
The Five Oaks clubhouse is located at 5109 Pine Cone Drive, Durham, NC 27707.
Reservations are $35 apiece, $40 at the door if available. You can reserve through the Forty Acres PayPal link here:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/FortyAcresChapelHill
Your PayPal receipt is your confirmation, and all we will need is your name at the door, which opens at 7:30.
All of Chris’s prior Forty Acres show have sold out, so we encourage you to go ahead and grab your reservations while you can.
We look forward to seeing you at the show.
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