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Alberta Rose Theatre is proud to present the legendary Chris Smither, $39, minors OK with parent/guardian, doors open at 7 pm, show at 8 pm.

Born in Miami during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard,” Smither says, “showed me that if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world.”

With that bit of knowledge under his belt, he was hooked. He’d loved acoustic music, specifically the blues, ever since he first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Blues In My Bottle album. “I couldn’t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar.”

The album joins Smither’s inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone with producer David Goodrich, Zak Trojano on drums, BettySoo’s harmony vocals, and jazz legend Chris Cheek on saxophone.