Christine Smith

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"Listen to the fire-escape romance of “The Car Alarm Choir Lullaby”, the nocturnal reflections of “Age of Indifference”, or the compressed melodrama of “Down The Street”, and you can’t help but think they don’t write ‘em like this anymore." - NO DEPRESSION
“Tomorrow Blues” is the solo debut album from singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, Christine Smith. It was released worldwide on November 14, 2006 on Marah’s label, Phidelity Records. Recorded in just eight days between Oct. ‘05 & Feb. ‘06, Christine self-produced the record and played nearly every instrument herself, with special guest appearances by Jesse Malin, David Bielanko (Marah) and Kirk Henderson (Marah)
I-TUNES: If you download "Tomorrow Blues" on I-Tunes, you'll also get Christine's intoxicating late-night one-take bonus-track - "Good Lookin’ Out" (written by David Bielanko and Serge Bielanko of Marah).
IN STORES: “Tomorrow Blues” is available in stores in the US/Canada and distributed by Red Eye, so if you go into the store and you can’t find it, please ask for it!
PAY PAL: You can also place an order via Pay Pal and have “Tomorrow Blues” shipped out to you. US/Canada residents: 1st CD is US $18 (if you order multiple copies, each additional CD is US $16). Everywhere else: US $20 (plus $16 for each additional copy). Payment address is [email protected]. Please specify "Christine Smith" in the subject line.
Originally from Queens, NY, Christine Smith was a child prodigy and an only child who began playing piano at the age of four. A year later, she started taking piano and voice lessons with retired Vaudeville performer Lila Sharkey and later had classical training under partial scholarship with retired Juilliard teacher Helena Arkus.
Christine’s been performing in public since the age of six, and eventually went on to learn drums, guitar, bass, autoharp, and most recently…the accordion. She began songwriting as a teenager, and was so heavily influenced by European/British music, culture and history, she decided that she would move to London to pursue her music, and do some exploring and experimenting in life.
She spent over a decade living in England performing Jazz Standards in London’s finest hotels and restaurants, and also hanging out in dark, smoky, Goth clubs. While continuing to write and develop her own music, she ended up working in theatre and radio as a musical director, actress and writer in comedy, performing in London and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Since returning to NYC, Christine has found work playing piano/keyboard/bvs...touring worldwide and recording with such diverse acts as Crash Test Dummies, Jesse Malin, and Ryan Adams and Marah.
Christine is now the newest member of Marah, and the band just finished recording the forthcoming January 2008 release, "Angels Of Destruction!" (Yep Roc Records). Meanwhile, Christine has begun recording her second solo record, with David Bielanko producing.
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