(PR) Grammy award winner with the band Dirty Vegas, singer/songwriter Steve Smith has found the inspiration to record his first solo album. In 2005, Smith felt tired of his native London, England and searched for a new beginning. Boston was it! With its musical heritage and the city's cosmopolitan feel, Smith knew this was his new home. When producer Anthony Saffery of Cornershop fame agreed to produce the album, the pair booked the legendary Camp Street Studios in Cambridge, MA and set to work.Many musicians of all genres and styles appear on Smith's solo debut This Town to be released January 22, 2008 on Smith's own label, GAS Records (named for his late father, George Albert Smith.) Those who came out to play include Saffery known the world over for his sitar playing with Cornershop, Beck, Oasis and others, Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields), Terry Barber (counter-tenor for the New York Symphony Orchestra), Jay Ungar (principal violinist for James Horner ["Titanic", "Legends of The Fall"]) and Rob Swift (The Executioners.) The result is a collection of songs that blend folk, rock and electronica with Smith's songwriting craft fusing all of those styles together.
The album's title track, "This Town" features an inspired and poignant speech recorded by the acclaimed actor John Savage ("The Deer Hunter," "Hair"), which sets the mood for the whole record. In addition to the track listing below, the album will feature two bonus cuts: a new song "Late Nights and Street Fights" which was recently chosen as the main title theme to FOX TV's hit series "Standoff" and a previously un-released acoustic version of Grammy award winning Dirty Vegas tune "Days Go By," which will only appear on the album's initial pressing.
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