{"id":3366,"date":"2011-12-13T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2011-12-13T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:13:55","slug":"samantha-savage-smith-tough-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/12\/13\/samantha-savage-smith-tough-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Savage Smith \u2013 Tough Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3367\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2011\/12\/13\/samantha-savage-smith-%e2%80%93-tough-cookie\/samantha-savage-smith-tough-cookie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3367\" title=\"Samantha-Savage-Smith-Tough-Cookie\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samantha-Savage-Smith-Tough-Cookie-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\nSamantha Savage Smith chronicles a tale of wrecked love on <em>Tough Cookie<\/em>, and despite it obviously being the result of a painful and poisonous relationship, I couldn\u2019t be happier to have this album in my collection.<!--more--> Savage Smith came through Winnipeg not so long ago, playing at the Lo Pub with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomordeathmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom or Death<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ashleyroch\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Roch<\/a>. More than a pleasant surprise, this album is on my top ten of the year. This is Savage Smith\u2019s debut release off of Arts and Crafts Distribution, and what a debut it is. Savage Smith has a honeyed voice that is strong and bluesy, with intimate lyrics that shift from the lovey-dovey of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.toromagazine.com\/music\/garage-band\/toro-tv\/cebcfe5f-5f78-f484-8d19-b7e9a8d4944f\/Samantha-Savage-Smith\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Fight\u201d<\/a> to pure angst and longing on tracks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EWPKd30f2X8\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYou Always Come to Mind.\u201d<\/a> \u201cHonestly \/ Honesty never really meant too much to me \/ So I\u2019ll just keep it in a box\u201d is the near screaming confession of \u201cKeep it in a Box,\u201d while \u201cThe Fight\u201d is all timely and willing submission. Dealing with themes of adultery, sex, and self-hatred, Smith hits the major chords of any great romance and she hits them hard. I seriously recommend this album for anyone who\u2019s been in or out love. (Western Famine Recordings, <a href=\"http:\/\/arts-crafts.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">arts-crafts.ca\/<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Savage Smith chronicles a tale of wrecked love on Tough Cookie, and despite it obviously being the result of a painful and poisonous relationship, I couldn\u2019t be happier to have this album in my collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66,561,1056],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-arts-crafts","tag-lo-pub","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}