J.D Smith is a London based solo blues/punk/rockabilly who has been trying for the past 4 years to bring Rockabilly back from the brink and allow this amazing music to gain a larger audience. Having stayed outside of the Rockabilly scene (but some very enjoyable times within), where Rockabilly music has found itself very much alive but stuck, J.D. has played in venues that include the Luminarie (in support of Wanda Jackson) the Barfly (upstairs and downstairs), the Fly, Purple Turtle (Camden), the Cafe de Paris, the Dublin castle, the Hope and Anchor, the Bull & Gate, the Notting hill arts club and the 12 Bar Club.
J.D's debut album '' A Jukebox riot,'' which was recorded earlier this year by Darrel Higham (Modern Rockabilly guitarist), has now been released in HMV and a number of other internet based retail outlets. The album has been picked up by Total Rock's radio station, who carried out an hour long interview for their Rockabilly/country show and a number of underground magazines including Bizarre magazine, the Music Magazine and Bubblegum Slut.
With an idea, a guitar and a heap of Punk rock thrown in J.D. is hoping to wake people up to the idea that a solo act doesn't have to mean folk, it can also be dangerous again.
www.myspace.com/stuartjamesdurdensmith
www.jukeboxriot.com
E-mail: [email protected]
''Everbody deserves a little rockabilly in their lives...and if twang's your thang, Mr Smiths got it in buckets. From the lowdown, honest-to-goodness stomp of ' This Violent Heart' and ' Kicking Machine' to the tender strumming of 'Time', JD Smith's take on old-fashioned rock and blues is charming and toe-tappin', delivered with a directness and honesty that tips it's hat to the spirit of Charlie Feathers and other long-gone knee-tremblers.''-Bizarre Magazine
'' The warm-up act had been a refreshing acoustic Country-Rockabilly set from J.D. Smith, who had, apparently, obligingly come off the street that afternoon to play the opening slot as the support band had cried off! The tone for the gig had thus been set by this energetic one-man-band who filled the stage from the floors to the vaulted rafters with his jangly wall-of-noise slide-guitar. ''-livemusic.fm
'' Sounds like an Elvis for the modern era'' - 8/10 - The Music Magazine
'' Fascinatingly bareboned rockabilly gothique.'' - Bugbear bookings
''These tracks jitter along with a barely contained energy and excitement and real passion to match Smith's technically faultless playing. You sort of imagine this is what it must have been like to hear this music for the first time before it got tired with use and reuse.'' - Bubblegum Slut
'' Combining acoustic rockabilly with a punk sensibility this is acoustic artistry at it's finest. '' - The List
J.D. Smith has played at the following venues:
ULU
The Luminarie ( in support of Wanda Jackson )
The Barfly ( upstairs and downstairs )
The Dingwalls
The Fly
Purple Turtle ( Camden )
The Cafe de Paris
The Dublin castle
The Hope and Anchor
The Bull Gate
The Notting hill arts club
The New Cross Inn
The Water Rats
The Jericho ( Oxford )
The Actress and bishop ( Birmingham )
The 12 Bar Club
To contact me via the non-myspace world please feel free to e-mail me at
[email protected]
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