From Elaine's "MTG serves more stupid (Boo!), Sam Smith serves up a great concert (Yea!):"
Sam opens with "Stay With Me" and the song's changed it up a little, Sam keeps finding new life in the song. It's one of my favorites.
Then comes "How Do You Sleep" which Sam notes is one of a favorite songs and that this is the best arrangement of it yet. I would agree with the latter. It sounds renewed. I like the song but in a world were we have "Stay With Me," "Burning," "Lay Me Down," "Unholy," "Too Good At Goodbyes," "I'm Not Here To Make Friends," "Money On My Mind," "Like I Can," "Pray," "Lose You," "Latch," "Perfect," "Diamonds," "Dancing With A Stranger," "I'm Not The Only One," "To Die For," "I'm Ready" . . . I could go on. In fact, every track on GLORIA (the latest album) is one of my favorite. So I like "How Do You Sleep," but, no, it probably doesn't even make my top forty favorite songs by Sam Smith.
Sam's third song is "Lay Me Down" and it's amazing -- turned into a duet with LaDonna Harley-Peters and it's really something.
Sam notes the pandemic and itching to get back to live performances. But there's not a lot of talk. Everyone performing in the concert is wonderful but I really love the work of the woman playing piano -- Ruth O'Mahony Brady.
His fourth and final song is "Unholy." It's different to hear it as a solo and to hear it performed as an acoustic song (along with the piano, there's a man on acoustic guitar, Ben Totten).