The progression of Darden Smith from his debut as a Lyle Lovett-lite country crooner to the smooth adult contemporary sound of Little Victories would have been alarming had there not been three intervening albums (two solo, one with Boo Hewerdine) that, like the word game where you add and subtract letters to go from one word to another in three changes, illustrated how the twang was removed an...
I vividly recall buying this album (from a used CD shop in Pasadena) and bringing it back home, putting it into the player, and simply sitting back on the couch realizing that this was the type of music that spoke directly to me. After listening to it once, I had to leave the apartment for an appointment, but I left the CD in the player, the jewel case sitting out on top of it. Jill told me lat...
