| Little Victories | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Richard Gottehrer | |||
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Little Victories is an album by the American musician Darden Smith, released in 1993. [1] [2] He supported the album by touring with Shawn Colvin. [3] The title track was released as a single, marketed to adult contemporary radio. [4] Little Victories was Smith's final album for Columbia Records. [5]
Recorded in New York City, the album was produced primarily by Richard Gottehrer. [6] [7] Smith's goal was to make a record that would receive radio play. [6] He cowrote some of its songs with Boo Hewerdine; Smith considered most of the songs to be autobiographical. [8] [9] Rosanne Cash duetted with Smith on "Precious Time". [7] Smith wrote "Place in the Sun" after reading Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory . [10] "Levee Song" was cowritten by Chip Taylor. [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [12] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [13] |
| St. Louis Post-Dispatch | B+ [14] |
| The Virginian-Pilot | [15] |
The Toronto Star praised Smith's "superbly crafted lyrics." [16] The Chicago Tribune wrote that "Smith mixes folk, country and panhandle blues in his musical portraits of real people in the real world." [17] The Vancouver Sun opined that "Little Victories puts Smith in a bit more of a cosmopolitan realm than his pop-country past, and it's pretty darn listenable." [18]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted the "great playing and solid songwriting." [14] The Daily Breeze deemed Smith "one of postmodern country's many unsung songwriters," labeling Little Victories "insightful thought-folk." [19] The Rocky Mountain News admired the "easygoing vocal style, consistent songwriting and a world-wise lyrical point of view." [20]
AllMusic wrote that the album "stands among Smith's most mature and ambitious work." [12]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Place in the Sun" | |
| 2. | "Loving Arms" | |
| 3. | "Little Victories" | |
| 4. | "Love Left Town" | |
| 5. | "Hole in the River" | |
| 6. | "Dream Intro" | |
| 7. | "Dream's a Dream" | |
| 8. | "Precious Time" | |
| 9. | "Days on End" | |
| 10. | "Levee Song" | |
| 11. | "Only One Dream" |
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