Back in 2023 we introduced Fort Worth, TX, singer-songwriter and musician Cameron Smith with single ‘Under the Cover of Darkness’, describing how an artist who cut his teeth in hardcore and post-punk pivoted towards folk rock for his solo work and drew on the shadowy depths of the southern gothic genre. “A song for the heartsick wanderer which can be traced back through Molina and van Zandt,” we wrote of the single, “where the long night is illuminated only by the blood … Continue reading Cameron Smith – The Way Life Ought to Be