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Joel Smith

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About Me

The Clark Kent to my redneck Superman.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/30/2005
Band Members: Guitars, banjo, loop station, the occasional ukulele. Also, sometimes: Karli Fairbanks
Influences: Andrew Bird, Ben Kweller, Arcade Fire, Paul Simon, Lyle Lovett, Gillian Welch, Todd Snider, Langhorne Slim, Norfolk & Western, The Gourds and Decemberists, Richard Shindell, Laura Veirs, Josh Ritter, the Avett Brothers.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Elkfest!

I'm playing Elkfest again this year! The three-day block party in Browne's Addition was a damn blast last year. The 2008 edition is a little scaled-down for some reason (almost all local yokels like m...
Posted by Joel Smith on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:36:00 PST

Buzzworthy

On the heels of (preposterously) being named Spokane's "best artist" by Spokane 7, I've been chosen as one of the Inland Northwest's five "buzzworthy" musical acts by The Pacific Northwest Inlander. Y...
Posted by Joel Smith on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:34:00 PST

Best Artist (proof)

Here's proof about the whole Sommy award thing, in case anybody was still doubting. Photos, my name in print. They even captured my bumbling acceptance "speech." Great....
Posted by Joel Smith on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

Best Artist

So I won Best Artist of 2007 at Friday night's Sommy Awards, a program put on by 7, a weekly paper in Spokane. Who'd have thought?The Hands of Plenty and I had already lost the readers' choice award f...
Posted by Joel Smith on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:27:00 PST

More nominations!

So, I got totally slaughtered in the readers' choice contest for Spokane's Best Band, in the awards sponsored by 7, a weekly paper here. But now I've been nominated in two other categories -- Best Art...
Posted by Joel Smith on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:26:00 PST

Best band?

Spokane's 7 weekly nominated me and the Hands of Plenty as one of the best Spokane bands of 2007. It was the only readers' choice category in the upcoming Sommy Awards. Unfortunately, we went down in ...
Posted by Joel Smith on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:10:00 PST

I exploded acoustically...

Scroll down here to listen to me ramble on about my muse on Spokane 7's website.
Posted by Joel Smith on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:41:00 PST

Preview in Sandpoint Reader

Storyteller: Singer/Songwriter Joel Smith explains where his inspiration comes from?By John T. Reuter?For SPRJoel Smith is a smartass.For example when I first asked him where the inspiration for his s...
Posted by Joel Smith on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:32:00 PST

ELKFEST

Elkfest was a blast, as evidenced by this photograph of me looking like Freddy Mercury. Elkfest pressFrom Spokane 7: "One of the local coffee shop scene's most respected singer-songwriters makes an ap...
Posted by Joel Smith on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:47:00 PST

Podcast show at Caterina on Wednesday

I'm headlining 7's podcast show at Caterina on Wednesday. You should come, if you're not busy watching Dancing with the Stars or something. Then you should listen to the podcast on 7's webpage the nex...
Posted by Joel Smith on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:33:00 PST