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steve smith

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Welcome to the home page of musician, composer, performer Steve Smith. On this site you will find information about Steve, his recordings, his performance schedule, and mp3 clips of Steve's recordings.

Steve has been performing mandolin and vocals for over 20 years in about as many different types of musical situations as one can imagine, from hard-driving traditional Bluegrass, his first love, to New Acoustic, Celtic, and Jazz ensembles, Old-Time, and chamber music. In addition, Steve has been involved in a number of theatrical productions.

Besides his regular touring schedule, Steve maintains a busy teaching and workshop schedule, including mandolin instruction at Camp Bluegrass, private guitar and mandolin lessons, and a broad pallet of recording sessions including mandolin, mandola, and guitar.

Steve has a new solo CD, Hard Road! This is Steve's fourth solo CD and 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. The eleven vocal and two instrumental tunes are performed on voice, mandolin, guitar, mandola, mandocello, banjo, bass and percussion and are performed in solo, duo, trio and quartet settings as they went to tape. The musicians include Jim Hurst, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall, Jane Horton, Robin Russell, Sally Barnes, George Rhee, Bob Hull, Fred Bugbee and Bruce Johnson.

Listen to the MP3 clips for this CD. DJ's, drop us a line (desertnite@zianet.com) when you have the chance and lets us know if Hard Road has made it into your rotation and what you think.

Look for the newest review of the recently released Meet Me By the River by Steve Smith & Hard Road.