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Artisan Music Reviews

"Country singer/songwriter Grant Maloy Smith joins master percussionist Kevin Lucas of the Kevin Lucas Experience to celebrate the memory of the lost people known as the Cahokias. Mysteriously disappearing from their homeland in what is now Central Illinois, their contribution to civilization in the Americas had literally gone unsung until now. Listen and revel in this percussion soaked tune 'Cahokia Winds' and honor true American history."

R.J. Lannan

Cahokia Winds

Americana Highways

“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.”

John Apice

Dust Bowl: American Stories

The Bakersfield Californian

"From the opening track, 'Old Black Roller'… this album hums, rolls and churns. The album's biggest standout is the rousing song ‘I Come From America’ — inspired by the Woody Guthrie anthem ‘This Land is Your Land.’”

Cesareo Garasa

Dust Bowl: American Stories

No Depression Magazine

“…songs that have the lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie, as intense as John Trudell and dusted with the trials and tribulations of Tom Joad – Steinbeck and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’…Grant’s music … is filled with outlaw-Appalachia, Depression-era folk, railroad spikes, Oklahoma crude and hospitality with Guthrie determination…a reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan (“Not Dark Yet,” “Mississippi”) -- and it’s that good, that memorable ... Grant’s ability to capture the heartland in his music is amazing. This is Grant Maloy Smith’s “Nebraska” and he has written a heartland masterpiece.”

John Apice

Dust Bowl: American Stories