Phil Smith (Aus)
Acoustic flavoured alt country. Got pedal steel, bass, me, and drums. Lots of light and shade in the songs.
6
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Take Me Home Take Me Home
Just a fingerstyle ballad, with a cool banjo solo, and backing vox from Brisbane's Jackie Marshall.
Flowers Flowers
Try Love Once More Try Love Once More
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Hi there. I am a singer songwriter hailing from Brisbane, Australia. Influenced by artists like Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Richmond Fontaine and Gillian Welch, I produced an EP last year titled Desire, and have a full length album, Goldmine, due in July. I play mainly acoustic guitar live, as well as mouth organ, and have a band, whose members vary from time to time. I lived in the U.K. for 6 years, and am planning on travelling, and hopefully touring, once Goldmine is finished. Goldmine is an 11 track album, featuring mainly piano, acoustic guit, pedal steel, drums, bass and organ.Band/artist history
I was born in Sydney. I picked up the guitar at 15, but for the first ten or fifteen years i was mainly into lead guitar, metal, hard rock etc. When i was living in the U.K. i started getting into singer songwriters like Nick Drake and Beth Orton. I took singing lessons for a while, whilst playing my own stuff around the towns i lived in. The more i got into it the more i started getting into alt country, Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown to start with, then Dylan, Neil Young etc. I was definitely a late bloomer.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes, i play live. Mainly at venues around Brisbane. I love it, for me it's the best part of being a musician. Pretty much every gig is a special moment!
Your musical influences
Americana. Dylan, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, Gillian Welch, Cash, Hank Williams. I like fairly dark, confessional stuff. Good stories with characters like Dylan, or Richmond Fontaine create.What equipment do you use?
Gibson acoustics. A 2001 Hummingbird and a '67 J-50.Anything else?
I like good books. Raymond Carver is my favourite author right now. Sylvia Plath's poetry. I definitely wanna play in the states. I wanna do a road trip through Nth America, play some gigs. Check out the scenery.
brisbane,
Australia
ID
847979
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Comments (3)
Take Me Home... picture this one in an open mic somewhere in America.... glasses clankin, kiddies sleepin, guitars pickin, lovers swayin. Nicely done indeed.
Phil Smith a performer of many many talents.Without dougt a music master in writing and performing his own matierial brilliantly.
Rich full and strong acoustics with a mix of steel brilliantly produced.
Beautiful acoustic intro that leads into a wonderful balad.
The song has a wonderful story line about all us men in some stage of our lives.
Very excited about this young performer and his abilty to keep producing tracks of this qualitly.
I certainly look forward to watching Phils progress over the next few years.
I recommend anyone to ad this great performer to there music collection.
Wonderful ,Wonderful performance
Bucky
Perth
Western Australia
gremar1@bigpond.com.au
www.gremarimage.com
Wonderful production this track with great full rich acoustics and the sentational interwoven sounds of the banjo.
Masterful writing with a clever story line and performed by a true talent of rich character.
Congradulations on a wonderful performance and if this is what we can expect in future then this artist Phil Smith from Australia is heading for a huge career in music.
Thank you Phil for the pleasure of being able to share your music.
Good Luck
Bucky
Perth
Western Australia
gremar1@bigpond.com.au
www.gremarimage.com
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