Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

New Song for Perfect Love

| July 17, 2011

TweetIf the Gawds of technology are working, this post should appear about the say time as I stand on the stern of a boat, facing a glorious woman and stuttering through the simple phrase “I do.” I post this in advance not to brag, but as an opportunity to let everyone not attending to hear [...]

Owning Audiences

| October 27, 2010

TweetIt is odd to own an audience. I do not refer to the purchasing of people to populate a performance, as many politicians have been known to do.  Instead I comment on those moments when a musical performer changes the mood of a room or stadium full of folk and eliminates all inattention.  Even top-shelf [...]

Concrete Cowgirls

| September 7, 2009

TweetIt is Labor Day in San Francisco, which means it is again time for cowgirls gone wild. Few parts of San Francisco are wilder than the Mission District. Mission mavens are ‘colorful’ in the same sense that parrots and flamingos are and Liberace was. Mission residents are not considered properly dresses unless their tattoos are [...]

Choice Change

| August 29, 2009

TweetI could get used to this real quick. There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California. Smelted in the 1960′s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60′s the differences were minor) was The Freight. Its proper name is The Freight [...]

Letting Go

| August 23, 2009

TweetHaving written songs and performed solo for way too long, it is odd being in a band. (We’ll call it a band. More like four guys who wanted to jam and needed a good reason to drink week nights). Individually we are all quite good. Collectively we are sloppy with occasional outbursts of brilliance. Working [...]