Once Upon a Time in the West

5/5

Once Upon a Time in the West

The White Buffalo

  1. gives it a: 5/5

    If this album was a drink, it’d be straight Jack Daniels. This is a record that feels lived in, settled. It has the stark beauty of open roads, the bleak nights of lonesome motels, all those crucial ingredients to an outlaw masterpiece. Smith has a rich, smoky reverence to his voice, a palpable honesty. He imbues these songs with a road tested, forlorn openness. There’s just nothing bad here…..except the events that shaped the man.