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Folk/blues musician and voracious re-reader

Chris Smither: Folk/blues musician and voracious re-reader

By Amy Sutherland

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    May 13, 2012

Chris Smither has had the well-sanded, world-weary voice of an old blues man since the New Orleans transplant first landed on Boston’s folk scene in the 1960s. This summer he comes out with his 14th recording, “Hundred Dollar Valentine”, which locals can get a preview of at his May 19 show at Arlington’s Regent Theatre

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