Member Since: 26/07/2008
Band Website: openmic.folkalley.com/shawnsmith
Band Members: Scott Stephenson: lead guitar, bass, piano, and organ. Jason Carter: drums. Belmont Avenue Blues--Shawn Smith: lead guitar. Ray Shelburn: bass. Jamie Simpson: additional vocals.
Influences: The Bible, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan,
Hank Williams Sr., Gram Parsons, Gillian Welch, Otis Redding, Bruce Springsteen, Silver Jews, Jack
Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Lenny Bruce...and on.
Sounds Like: a chilld that listened to country gospel in church, a boy whose Grandfather and Dad introduced him to Hank Williams Sr. and Johnny Cash, a fourteen year old kid who discovered Bob Dylan and Stax, then later Gram Parsons, a young man that listened to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and The River and later discovered Townes Van Zandt and Tom Wait's early records--
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned