Tell me about doing that and what that meant to you. You wrote that, as I understand it, about your father’s infidelity– and you wrote it from your mother’s perspective! That whole story right there is just fantastic.
I want to talk about some of the songs on the album.
I love the Wood Brothers for more like contemporary artists, Justin Townes Earle, those kinda guys in more of the Americana realm, a lot of classic rock, Neil Young, folks like that.
John Prine, Tom Petty, those are my main guys. Who are the folks that you listen to? The ones that give you your inspiration?Ī lot of the typical guys. I’d been kinda writin’ stuff for a while, but that got me goin’ singin’ my own stuff. They had just started it and that was kind of what got me goin’, writing and singing my own tunes. I went to the University of Miami and there was a songwriting ensemble there called the Bruce Hornsby Songwriting Ensemble ’cause he went there. It’s definitely those jazz influences and some bluegrass and Americana stuff, but I didn’t really study songwriting formally. Is that something that you studied formally? Who do you admire in that arena? There’s a Southern Rock influence there that would, of course, be expected from a Georgia boy. Stylistically on the album, I can definitely hear a jazz influence. I had some tunes kickin’ around and I initially only planned to do a couple of songs, but then they started soundin’ really good and I started writing a little bit more and then it just turned into the full-length thing! Had you been initially planning to record a full-length album or was this just a case of you finally had the time to do it? It was brand new and I learned a lot in the process.
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I took the opportunity to upgrade my home studio, get some new gear, and then I taught myself how to use Logic, which is a recording program. Is that something that you had worked with before or is this something new for you? I read somewhere that you have your own studio at home and you just mentioned recording remotely, which is something that a lot of people have been doing, expanding upon, and really, I think innovating this last year and a half.
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And then it just kind of snowballed until we had a full record! I set out by just doin’ a couple of songs with some buddies and emailing tracks back and forth to each other. It was cool to record everything remotely. One of the songs I wrote actually like 10 years ago, but the content of a lot of the lyrics from the tunes are not overtly about the pandemic. Recorded during the pandemic, during the quarantine– but you don’t really consider it a pandemic record necessarily? That came out back in the spring, in April. Underground blends deeply personal episodes with finely tuned skill, and on Thursday, September 30th, Parker Smith will share his stories on stage at JBA with a special solo performance.ĪI- Let’s talk about your latest full-length album Underground. Having studied multiple musical facets at the University of Miami and the University of Texas, Smith returned to his native Georgia in 2015 and shortly thereafter opened up his own music school, the Guitar Shed, an impressive endeavor humbly formed as a one-man operation that’s grown to require a varied and accomplished staff. Parker Smith shows off his chops with Underground, the Atlanta singer-songwriter’s jazzy, Americana flavored collection of quarantine recorded songs that channel classic lyricists and Southern jam heroes.
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