Featured Artist:
Smith Curry, Guitar
The last twenty years of Smith Curry's
life have given him an extremely diverse list of accomplishments:
he has worked with acts ranging from hip-hop visionaries
Digital Underground, to uber-star Kid Rock; he is a session
player whose solos are on the top of the charts, and a
sideman that has worked with over 30 major-label Country
artists. His trusty brown Dobro has been on stage with
legends ranging from Bill Monroe to British synth/pop
stars Erasure. Smith's television exposure in the last
several years has been voluminous, including the Nashville
Star house band in 2005, The Tonight Show, The Late Show
with David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell, CMT's Prime Time
Country and Most Wanted Live, the Grand Ole Opry, CNN's
Showbiz Today, and The CMA Awards, CMT's Outlaws special
with Kid Rock, and GAC specials with Taylor Swift and
Sherrie Austin. Recently, he has played major-label master
sessions for legendary producers like Paul Worley, James
Stroud, Don Cook, Blake Chancey, Kyle Lehning, Chuck Howard,
and Ron Chancey, and can be heard on hit singles like
Randy Travis's #1 (and ACM and CMA Song of the Year) "Three
Wooden Crosses", Jason Aldean's #1 hit "Why",
and his compositional talents can be heard alongside Jerry
Douglas's and Ricky Skaggs's in the score for the HBO
movie The Grave.
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