Outtakes from Georgia

Corey Smith is a pop country singer from Georgia who spent the early part of his career playing around bars in Georgia slowly creating a fan base that appreciates his music about trials and tribulations that go on through people’s lives, specifically those from the country. The concert starts out with the sound of a rougher more backcountry Jack Johnson on guitar, with the twang of any generic country singer. The lyrics don’t do him any justice either, with a typical array of feelings of regret, hopefulness, reminiscing, white t shirts and blue jeans; he doesn’t get far from the same general subject. It is classical sing along music with catchy choruses and light background guitar riffs, to slowly fade out into nothing. Not much substance to the music but is easy to connect with because of his constant relations to easily comprehendible concepts (mainly drinking). Encouraging the crowd and communicating with them between songs seems to be his way of connecting his crowd with his music, often giving the crowd of a preview of the upcoming song almost warming up the crowd for whatever he about to say. He reaches out to college kids and talks about subjects that would inspire any group of drunken college kids to scream in recognition and acceptance. Overall he accomplishes the image he portrays when you think about what is involved in a Corey smith concert.