desert night music
steve smith

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Steve's CDs can be purchased online at CD Baby. There are several mp3 clips available for download on our web site. Check out the Audio Files to listen to selected tunes from the various CDs.. For your convenience, links to each CD is provided here. In addition, you can use the shopping cart at the bottom of this page to purchase more than one item.

Distant Lands

A combination of traditional acoustic music influenced by Jazz, chamber, and new age styles with improvisation on mandolins, guitar, soprano sax, violins, bass and percussion and featured on the Weather Channel.

"Tunes such as Wind Dance, As the Crow Flies, and Pastel Fantasy all contain images of the openness and beauty of the desert. Smith's music covers a wider area and he also brings in violin, cello, soprano sax, and bass to contrast and support his playing." Please visit the Reviews page to read this and other reviews for this CD.

Track List:

As the Crow Flies
Ocotillos
Distant Lands
Solo Medley
Wind Dance
A Walk at Dawn
In The Shadow of the Past
Pastel Fantasy

Other Places, Times & Lives, CD, Steve Smith

Other Places, Times and Lives

Bluegrass and folk with vocals,mandolin, guitar, fiddle, mandola and mandocello.

"Instrumentally, no one can hold a candle to Smith. Here he plays mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and guitar and seems equally adept at all. He uses each instrument to its best, using the mandola for fiddle-tune things, and the guitar for a bigger sound." Please visit the Reviews page to read this and other reviews for this CD.

Track List:

Billy The Kid
Anna Mae
Antibellum Waltz
How Will I be Simple Again
Whistle Stop
Shady Grove
Daughter of Mcleod
Mariner Ward
Big Train
Fiddle Tune Medley
Working on a Building

Desert Night

New Acoustic/Chamber Folk with mandolin quartets and trios, finger style guitar and mandola, swinging guitar with jazz, classical,olt-time and celtic influences.

"Desert Night, a superb piece of artistry, is a worthwhile addition to most any music library. Steve Smith has an uncommon mastery of the mandolin and other similar instruments and fans of acoustic variety will enjoy this fine CD." Please visit the Reviews page to read this and other reviews for this CD.

Track List:

Desert Night/Starlight Canyon
Traveler's Lament/ Mr. Jefferson's Oak
Sway Back Horse/Buzzard on a Fencepost
The Queen Anne's Revenge
Colorado Farewell
The Grackle and the Hamster
When Small Children Sleep
Bacon and Bread
The Café Waltz
Allemande in E Minor
Frozen Lake
Orchard Music
Crossing Queens Creek
Frozen Lake Postlude

Hard Road

Hard Road works well in all traditional bluegrass, old time, celtic, gospel and Americana radio formats.

Hard Road, Steve Smith's fourth solo cd is a collection of live studio takes ranging from original instrumental and vocals to traditional works and tunes from John Phillips, Radney Foster, Phil Rosenthal and the Beatles. Please visit the Reviews page to read this and other reviews for this CD.

Track List:

Poor Man
Trumball School
The Jig Set
I'll Remember You Love
Dig a Hole
Hard Road
Sugar Babe
Norwegian Wood
Me and My Uncle
The Four Points
Muddy Water
Hornpipes
Went for a Ride

Meet Me By the River

The new CD from STEVE SMITH and HARD ROAD

STEVE SMITH and HARD ROAD bring the traditional sounds of Old-time, Bluegrass and Gospel music and blend in a variety of original vocal and instrumental works to create their own modern/retro sounds of string band music. HARD ROAD features Steve Smith (mandolin, mandola, guitar and vocals), Wayne Shrubsall (banjo, vocals), Chris Sanders (vocals), Bob Hull (guitar, vocals) and Eli Copeland (bass, vocals).

STEVE SMITH and HARD ROAD evolved into a full working group as an extension of Smith's live studio recording, Hard Road (dn444) released in June 2004. The group has been playing festivals and concerts in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions including Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Wyoming and their home state of New Mexico. They recently returned from their first East Coast tour.

HARD ROAD'S latest CD was released in August 2005:
Meet Me By The River (dn545) is a collection of five original works, three traditional tunes, a new song from Steve Spurgin ("I Owe My Soul"), a Bill Monroe classic ("Rocky Road Blues") and a song from Joan Baez ("I'm with You"). The CD is on the Desert Night label and features traditional music legend Byron Berline on fiddle.

desert night music steve smith

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desert night music
steve smith