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Review From JP’s Music Blog

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JP title bar 2009 Finally from the Bay Area comes the debut album, “The Sum Of Life” from singer/songwriter Scott Smith. Smith invited some legendary musicians to help him accomplish his goal of producing a timeless album. Beginning with the title-song, “The Sum Of Life” is a gentle, acoustic instrumental that invites you in to experience the full range of what Smith has to offer. He picks the tempo up with the bluesy rocker “Eclipsing Moon” and the country swing of “Payday” to showcase his musicianship.

The old school, Americana sounds of “Bad Dreams” and “The Best Gift” are highlighted by David LaFlamme (It’s A Beautiful Day) on violin, who gives the songs an authenticity. The new eleven-song release finishes up with the guitar/piano boogie of “The World Is Strange” and the dirty blues rock of “Messing With Reality.” To find out more about Scott Smith and his latest release “The Sum Of Life,” please visit scottsmithband.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Giovanna performs Beautiful Tracks

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Giovanna Imbesi was up a few weeks ago to work on the new album of “The Joy of Cooking” and we were able to have her perform on a few songs for my album. She played on many of the song on my first album and it great to work with her again. It’s amazing to have such accomplished artists work on my project. Giovanna has played with Yanni and Andy Summers.

Here are so pictures from the session.

Mr. Spencer Burrows

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We had the pleasure of working Spencer Burrows, from the band Frobeck, this last weekend.

Spencer laid down tracks on 4 songs playing his Hammond organ. We started at 7am, not

a typical time for musicians, none of us had more than a few hours sleep. Spencer sure

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Doing the Hand Jive

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Me, Jeanette and Dan, doing hand claps for my song Rolling Home off the new album. It’s a blues shuffle tune and I came up

with idea of claps for a percussion effect. Not sure if it will work but it was a lot of fun.

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Hanging with the Dawg

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This is from David Grisman’s CD release party last night at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. It was a great show, with

a guest appearance from Mike Marshall for the encores. David considers his new album (David Grisman Sextet) to be

some of his finest work. It was recorded and mastered here in Sebastopol at Studio E. David plays on a song I wrote about

the Grateful Dead called Skeleton and Roses on my upcoming album. It won’t be out for a year or so but you can listen to

a solo acoustic version on a KOWS radio interview which is on my website. www.ScottSmithBand.com

 

 

Dan (Dr. Drums Ransford) laying Down Tracks @ Studio E

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Here are pictures of my friend Dan Ransford performing overdubs on my new album.

Dan is a real craftsman.

 

KRCB Radio

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Hey, I’m on KRCB radio tomorrow 2/24/16 @noon On Doug Jaynes show. Talking and playing stuff off the new album

along with Jeff Martin from Studio E and John Knudsen who has a new album out too. John’s album feature David Grisman.

You can listen to it online @ http://krcb.org/