Chris Smothers cosmic blues are on full display in HUNDRED DOLLAR VALENTINE, a brilliant amalgam made of equal parts past, present and future. HUNDRED DOLLAR VALENTINE, Smothers twelfth studio disc, is a masterwork. It sports the unmistakable sound he's made his trademark: fingerpicked acoustic guitar and evocative sonic textures meshed with spare, brilliant songs, delivered in a bone-wise, hard-won voice.