Grant Maloy Smith

Male

Kingston, RI

United States

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Indie Artist

Artist's or Band's Name

Grant Maloy Smith

City & State

Kingston, RI

Country

United States

Music Genre(s):

Americana American Roots, Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Country

Bio:

Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His latest album, DUST BOWL: AMERICAN STORIES, spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10. The follow-up album, APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES, was released in 2021 to wide critical acclaim.Grant made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates. He has performed twice at Carnegie Hall, and made his Lincoln Center debut in 2021. He was inducted into the Indie Music Hall of Fame in 2020.

The "Bible" of American Roots music, NO DEPRESSION magazine, raved about him:

“… lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie ... A reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan, and it’s that good, that memorable…”.

His song "Man Of Steel" has been adopted by the National Veterans Foundation as their official theme song.

His charming Christmas song “Fly Possum Fly” (featuring county singing sensation EmiSunshine) was both a radio single and a children’s book. Grant added book festivals and book signings to his itinerary, which continues now as a second book in the series, published by Headline Books.

In 2022 he released a bona fide Christmas album, mixing his trademark roots sound with Jazz and Caribbean sounds on some of the tracks.

His single “I See You” was released with the support of Masterpiece Living, an organization dedicated to creating better lives for our elders.

A song he wrote, “I Reckon,” was recorded by country star Jeff Clayborn, and has spent weeks on the MusicRow CountryBreakout chart in late 2019 and was a #1 single in Europe in 2020.


Grant Maloy Smith is a member of the CMA (Country Music Association), AMA (Americana Music Assocation), NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International), and is the co-founder of the Indie Collaborative, a group of more than 2000 independent musicians and music industry professionals. His music is distributed by the Orchard/Sony.

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