Member Since: 16/08/2007
Band Website: www.thesmoothmaria.com
Band Members: Ben Gallina - bass
Matt Kanelos - piano, guitar, vocals
Conor Meehan - drums, percussion
Kyle Sanna - guitar, back-up vocals
Influences: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Ed Pastorini, Aldo Perez, Charlie Chaplin, Thelonious Monk, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Mickey Rourke, Barack Obama, Roland Satterwhite, The Mattoid, Andy Kaufman, Miles Davis, Velvet Underground, Yellowstone National Park, Fort Tryon Park, Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Leonard Cohen, Will Oldham, Seinfeld, Sex & the City, Wayne Shorter, Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, Sonic Youth, Califone, F. S. Fitzgerald, Sherman Alexie, Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Johnny Cash, Ron Smothermon, John Coltrane, Robert Johnson, J. Brahms, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Arundhati Roy, Shirley Horn, Duke Ellington . . . .
Type of Label: Unsigned