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John Smith

Singer/Songwriter

The next John Smith concert is scheduled for Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Greenhill Fields in Trowbridge, United Kingdom. See all 35 upcoming concerts
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Upcoming Concerts for John Smith

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  • Jul
    26
    Jul 26, 2025
    Greenhill Fields
    Trowbridge
  • Aug
    27
    Aug 27, 2025
    Tønder Festival
    Tønder
  • Oct
    21
    Oct 21, 2025
    Newhampton Arts Centre
    Wolverhampton
  • Oct
    22
    Oct 22, 2025
    The Y Theatre
    Leicester
  • Oct
    23
    Oct 23, 2025
    Pavillion Arts Centre
    Buxton
  • Oct
    24
    Oct 24, 2025
    St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Church
    Liverpool
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About John Smith

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Hometown
Essex, England
Genre
Singer/Songwriter
Although British folk guitarist John Smith bears comparison to alternative folk contemporaries like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Fionn Regan, José González, and Cara Dillon, the Devon-born, Liverpool-based prodigy has connections to an older generation of inventive and progressive folk guitarists as well, having played alongside John Martyn, John Renbourn, and Martin Simpson. An inventive guitarist who not only explores unusual tunings à la Davy Graham, but often plays his acoustic instrument in entirely unconventional ways (detuning strings in the middle of a chord, laying it upright in his lap and hammering on the strings like a dulcimer, etc.), Smith occasionally sounds like an otherworldly cross between Tim Buckley (whose "Song to the Siren" is a standard part of Smith's set) and the East Texas avant primitive Jandek, although his occasional full-band performances approach the chamber folk delicacy of Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left. Smith debuted with the self-released live set Live at the Roundhouse, available on both CD and DVD, before the release of his first studio album, The Fox and the Monk, in 2006. A couple of non-album singles followed -- 2007's "The Bird and the Worm" and "If I Prove False," a 2008 collaboration with Dillon -- before Smith contributed guitar to a couple of tracks on Dillon's acclaimed 2009 LP Hill of Thieves. Smith's own Map or Direction appeared later that year -- a whole album of songs recorded while traveling through the southern states of the U.S., and 2011 brought Eavesdropping, an album of cover versions including material originally performed by acts as diverse as Elton John, Tuung, and Terence Trent D'Arby. After a relatively quiet 2012, Great Lakes was issued the following March, an album primarily recorded in a converted chapel in northwest Wales. Following the death of John Martyn in 2009, Smith appeared on a tribute album to the late singer/songwriter alongside David Gray, Beth Orton, and Vashti Bunyan. He continued to play guitar for other artists like Lianne La Havas and Joan Baez, and also released his fifth record in 2017. Headlong was dedicated to the memory of John Renbourn, who died in 2015. ~ Stewart Mason & James Wilkinson

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