COASTAL PATH

“IT’S A DREADNOUGHT, Y’KNOW? IT HAS ALL THE TONES THAT I NEED. I PLAY WITH A VERY PRIMITIVE AND VERY AGGRESSIVE STYLE. I’M KIND OF ATTACKING IT. I’M ALL RIGHT HAND. THERE’S NO FLASH – PLAY FUCKIN’ HARD OR DON’T PLAY AT ALL”

Jake Smith keeps things honest. His music is rough-hewn and almost totally unvarnished, and with On The Widow’s Walk, his latest LP as The White Buffalo, he wants to do what he’s always done with his records: hit you where it hurts. “If you’re a songwriter,” he says on the line from Los Angeles, “you should be in the emotion business.”