San Francisco’s Sonny Smith has never been an artist comfortable with categories. He’s made albums touching on blues, pop, folk rock, and country. On his latest effort, New Day with New Possibilities, released on his own Rocks In the Head label, he returns to the country and western genre he first explored years ago, on 2012’s Longtime Companion. Smith says the uplifting title came to him slowly. “I’ve had a print by an artist I know, Chris Johanson, on the wall of my kitchen for many years,” he says. “It became the album cover and the title. I’d been searching for cover art for a while. Then, one day, I looked up and thought, ‘This is really the presentiment for right now.’” Smith wasn’t planning to make an album. He’d decided to take some time away from music and concentrate on his paint...
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