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Grant Maloy Smith's Electronic Press Kit for Talent Buyers
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This is the first of several pages of EPK (electronic press kit) information about Grant Maloy Smith. Please use the links above to go to the other pages, which contain downloadable headshots, lists of Grant's awards, the venues he's played around the world, his appearances on radio, television, and film, critical reviews of his work, and press appearances.
Very Short Bio (<100 words)
Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His theme albums in the AMERICAN STORIES series include DUST BOWL, APPALACHIA, MISSISSIPPI, and WILD WEST, and have all earned rave reviews from Americana Highways, MusicRow Magazine, Bluegrass Today, Roots Music Report, and many more publications. Over the years, his albums have spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart and #12 on the Country album sales chart.
Short Bio (~120 words)
Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His theme albums in the AMERICAN STORIES series include DUST BOWL, APPALACHIA, MISSISSIPPI, and WILD WEST, and have all earned rave reviews from Americana Highways, MusicRow Magazine, Bluegrass Today, Roots Music Report, and many more publications. Over the years, his albums have spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart and #12 on the Country album sales chart. Grant has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates.
Medium Bio (~200 words)
Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His theme albums in the AMERICAN STORIES series include DUST BOWL, APPALACHIA, MISSISSIPPI, and WILD WEST, and have all earned rave reviews from Americana Highways, MusicRow Magazine, Bluegrass Today, Roots Music Report, and many more publications. Over the years, his albums have spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart and #12 on the Country album sales chart. Grant has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates. Critics have raved about his music, including:
“… lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie ... A reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan, and it’s that good, that memorable…”
~ NO DEPRESSION magazine
“If you took a few ounces of Willie Nelson and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, mixed them carefully, Grant Maloy Smith would appear ... One day we’ll be talking about how Grant Maloy Smith is a national treasure – like John Prine. I’d be the first to say it’s so.”
~ AMERICANA HIGHWAYS magazine
Long BiO
Grant Maloy Smith is an Americana recording artist and songwriter whose music paints vivid portraits of the American experience. With a storyteller’s heart and a historian’s respect for truth, Smith has spent the past decade crafting a trilogy of albums that explore the nation’s soul through its landscapes and people. His acclaimed DUST BOWL: AMERICAN STORIES (2017) brought to life the parched struggle of families who braved the 1930s storms. APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES (2020) followed, celebrating the endurance, faith, and fierce beauty of mountain life. Then came MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES (2024), a sweeping musical journey along the mighty river that runs from Minnesota to New Orleans—chronicling the people, culture, and history shaped by its waters, from steamboats and cotton fields to blues joints and bayous. The latest album in the series is WILD WEST: AMERICAN STORIES, a double vinyl album, CD, and hardcover book that tells the story of America's expansion westward in the 1800s.
Blending folk, country, and roots influences, Smith’s sound feels timeless, echoing the grit of John Prine and the soulful fire of Chris Stapleton. His songs are living stories of love, loss, struggle, and redemption drawn from the heart of the land itself. With his latest album, Smith continues his musical chronicle of the nation’s unfolding story—one album, one landscape, one truth at a time.
Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His Americana theme albums, including DUST BOWL: AMERICAN STORIES, APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES, and MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES, have all earned rave reviews from Americana Highways, MusicRow Magazine, Bluegrass Today, Roots Music Report, and more. Over the years, his albums have spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart and #12 on the Country album sales chart. Grant has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates. In 2020, he was inducted into the Indie Music Hall of Fame in Hollywood. Critics have raved about his music, including:
“… lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie ... A reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan, and it’s that good, that memorable…”
~ NO DEPRESSION magazine
“If you took a few ounces of Willie Nelson and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, mixed them carefully, Grant Maloy Smith would appear ... One day we’ll be talking about how Grant Maloy Smith is a national treasure – like John Prine. I’d be the first to say it’s so.”
~ AMERICANA HIGHWAYS magazine
Grant's song “Man Of Steel” was adopted by the National Veterans Foundation (www.nvf.org) as their official theme song. His single “I See You” was released with the support of Masterpiece Living, an organization dedicated to creating better lives for our elders. His song “I Reckon” spent weeks on the MusicRow CountryBreakout charts. Grant's charming Christmas song “Fly Possum Fly” (featuring singing sensation EmiSunshine) was both a radio single and a children’s book. Grant Maloy Smith is a member of the CMA (Country Music Association), AMA (Americana Music Association), TCMA (Texas Country Music Association), NARAS (The GRAMMYS®), and is the co-founder of the Indie Collaborative, a group of more than 2,000 independent musicians and music industry professionals.