Concert review: Sam Smith delivers sensitive elegance with salty side at Rogers Place

“I’m very aware that my songs are a little depressing,” acknowledged Sam Smith early on at his Rogers concert last night.
This is true to some degree. A sensitive lover man with a tendency towards emotive plaints and gospel, the English singer-songwriter tipped his hand on the atmospheric opening number, Burning, seated on a wooden chair in the middle of the stage, recalling a devastated Sinatra in the wee small hours. Except that Sinatra never featured a keytar on any of his s