Smith Curry

   pedal steel, Dobro, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, banjo

       The last twenty years of Smith Curry's life have given him an extremely diverse list of accomplishments: he has toured with acts ranging from uber-star Kid Rock to British synth/pop stars Erasure; he is a session player whose credits include the CMA, ASCAP and ACM songs of the year; and a sideman that has worked with over 40 major-label Country artists such as Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, and Randy Travis. Smith's television exposure in the last several years has been voluminous, including the Nashville Star house band in 2005, The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, the ACM awards, CMT's Prime Time Country and Most Wanted Live, the Grand Ole Opry, CNN's Showbiz Today, The CMA Awards, CMT's Outlaws special with Kid Rock, and GAC specials with Taylor Swift and Sherrie Austin. Smith appeared in the 2010 Gwyneth Paltrow film “Country Strong” as well as the 1995 “Dottie West Story”.

He has played major-label master sessions for legendary producers like Paul Worley, James Stroud, Don Cook, Blake Chancey, Kyle Lehning, Chuck Howard, and Ron Chancey, and can be heard on hit
singles like Randy Travis's #1 "Three Wooden Crosses", Jason Aldean's #1 hit "Why", and Billy Currington's #1 “Good Directions”. His compositional talents can be heard alongside Jerry Douglas's and Ricky Skaggs's in the score for the HBO movie "The Grave", and on his upcoming solo record “American Idle”.