Slash & Burn

Stephan Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Artemis Records
• ASIN: B00025ETWI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #657,972 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Slash and Burn

2. Break the Bread

3. Taking Aim

4. Lee Kyung Hae

5. In the Air

6. Turning of the Tide

7. You Ain't a Cowboy

8. World to Come

9. Unspeakable Love

10. Billy in the Lowground

11. Bitter Happiness

12. Shenandoah

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A triumph, April 20, 2006

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Jeanne Gray (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slash & Burn (Audio CD)

Stephan Smith is a gem among the arists of today: a poet as well as a musician. His themes are far-reaching, thought-provoking, and quite touching, exposing the hipocrisy of poverty in a time of incredible affluence. And he sounds amazing, mixing genres as if they didn't exist. The songs are honest, the album staggering.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Life from a Silver Spoon, March 3, 2005

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slash & Burn (Audio CD)

Stephan Smith's "Slash & Burn" is a modern protest set from an imaginative young artist. Smith, whose father is Iraqi, is not a fan of the current president. "You Ain't A Cowboy" with its blatant George Bush imitation bites hard at the Republican elite, "Don't be scared, I ain't even going to use your name when I pick apart your head, bring your whole life to shame. You ain't nothin' but an oil tycoon, you ate your whole life from a silver spoon, the whole country knows you're an aristocrat goon, but you still ain't got the sense to know when it's high noon, your daddy bought you a ranch, you thought it was cool, you drank mint juleps by the swimming pool & flunked school while the hired hands did all the work, you carried on & partied like a frat boy jerk, you see we rode the herd while you got a free ride, what your kind represents makes my grandma cry." "Unspeakable Love" is a stirring ballad that rises melodically with Smith's vocals that are often compared to Woody Guthrie sounding quite Arlo-like in vocal quality. "Taking Aim" is a progressive political rap with a Lou Reed-like chorus and some stinging guitar, "I'm taking aim at the next world, you're in the way." "Lee Kyung Hae" has Asian musical flourishes in this ballad about a South Korean farmer thrown off his land. On the title track, Smith boldly takes on the music industry that promotes product over artistry. "Slash & Burn" is a bold and moving set. Not each track is consistently strong, but it is moving political music. Enjoy!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Context: great interview with the artist, July 12, 2005

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Mark Twain (Underground, or not.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Slash & Burn (Audio CD)

The more I learn about the context of Stephan's music, the more I understand why I love it. Here is a link to a recent interview with Stephan Smith: <a href="http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/archives/content/issue20/features/troubador.php">link</a>