“Sometimes so lost all I knew was my name,” sings Megan Smith with Sam Misner on “Greyhound Days,” a song off their new album Misner & Smith: Live At The Freight & Salvage. This song is their modern version of a timeless lost-on-the-road, train-hopping tale: “Never trust comfort, it’s weak and it dies/ Have faith in the struggle/ Don’t rest ‘til you die."
The Northern California natives have been playing original Americana and Roots music since 2004. Misner & Smith: Live At The Freight & Salvage is a live album from their performance at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, and the album features a stunning array of their work to date.
Misner & Smith are known for their beautiful use of vocal harmonies. Megan Smith plays the upright bass and mandolin, and Sam Misner plays guitar. This live album has a perfect pacing—some songs take a slow and mournful approach, while others feature guitar pickin’ madness. Their song “Poor Player,” featured on this album and originally recorded in 2008, won the West Coast Songwriters Association’s Song of the Year competition, and was nominated in the New Folk category in one of the world’s largest international song contests put on by the Just Plain Folks music organization. Other fan favorites on the live album include “Madeline (Paradise Cracked)” from their debut album Halfway Home.
–Shauna Keddy