Eli Smith
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Eli Smith

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I have one self released EP that I sell at shows. Two of my tracks were featured on a CD called "Got the Impeach Bush/Cheney Blues" on Random Chance Records.

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I have been enthralled by folk music since I was a teenager here in New York City in the late 90's. Mississippi John Hurt and Woody Guthrie were the first two that I went crazy for, but there have been many others: Roscoe Holcomb, Dink Roberts, New Lost City Ramblers, Holy Modal Rounders, Leadbelly, Blind Boy Fuller, Jesse Fuller, G.B. Grayson, Wade Ward, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Memphis Jug Band, Gus Cannon, Bascom Lunsford, Frank Proffitt, Honeyboy Edwards, and many others.

My style if firmly rooted in long study of the old recordings. Fantastic stuff! But I'm not stuck in any idealized past, nor do I try to replicate the performances on the record. I love to write and I write my own songs with a contemporary edge. These songs address my own experience using the techniques I have learned from listening to old records and seeking out older musicians and scholars. I am blending the old and the new in as potent a mix as I can make, no holds barred!