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SHOWS & EVENTS

  • 06/29/2017

    Austin, TX – Shady Grove

  • 06/30/2017

    Austin, TX – Keynote Speech

  • 07/13/2017

    Austin, TX – Private Event

  • 08/08/2017

    Bluemont, VA – SongwritingWith:Soldiers

  • 08/29/2017

    Bluemont, VA – SongwritingWith:Soldiers

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Darden Smith. Songwriter. Musician. Innovator.

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  • VIVA TERLINGUA – JERRY JEFF WALKER

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    Back in 1979 I dragged two friends to Rockefeller’s in Houston to see J.D Souther. I was just a junior in high school but I knew that he was cool, that he’d written all these great songs. Black Roses, White Rhythm And Blues. New Kid In Town. He was sick that night, barely had a voice, …

  • RODNEY CROWELL – BE A LITTLE HUNGRY

    1996 – Nashville Rodney Crowell is on his way to pick me up for breakfast. I’m standing in the lobby of the hotel wondering why this is happening. I don’t know Rodney that well. We’ve toured together a few times, ran into each other a few times in airports and on street corners in New …

  • MODERN FOLK MUSIC

    Years ago, David Kahne (the record producer and also my A&R guy atColumbia Records) told me that the magic of Bruce Springsteen is that he writes new folk songs. You feel like you’ve heard them for years. This morning when I sat at the piano for an hour learning “Racing In The Streets” that statement …

  • WRITING SONGS WITH RADNEY FOSTER AND JACK INGRAM

    Writing a song with somebody connects you like glue. You sit in a room and spill your soul, tell each other secrets that you can’t, or won’t, confess in any other setting. You find the poetry that hangs around the edges of a life, Sing about the beauty, the darkness, what’s lost and found. Together, …

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