LIVE MUSIC: K. Edward Smith

Live Music in Jackson featuring songwriter and composer K. Edward Smith hosted by 308 Brass Rail.

Come join us for a night of great original music and great food & brews!

Kyle “K. Edward” Smith is a drummer-turned-songwriter and composer from northern Indiana. He performs live as a solo act and fronts a band featuring flexible arrangements of musicians. Smith is also a film composer having songs featured in independent film releases and recently producing a feature-length score in partnership with Right Brain Records.

Smith’s music has been described as “refreshingly eclectic alt-folk” and fans can hear echoes of artists like John Prine Nick Cave Iron & Wine and Tom Waits.

Originally cutting his teeth in the rough-and-tumble realities of the independent music underworld — most notably touring the country as a member of the underground metal band Assimilator — Smith discovered his voice as a singer/songwriter when he started writing tender folk-tinged tunes on a beat-up acoustic guitar he found rotting away in a neighbor’s garage.

Looking to fuse the intensity of his underground experiences with the immediacy he was discovering in folk music — and taking cues from avant-garde composers like Harry Partch — Smith oftentimes found himself making use of more and more off-kilter thrifted forgotten or homemade acoustic instruments in his writing and recording. 

This resulted in a strange Americana-laced world of sounds all his own.

Most recently Smith is celebrating the release of Penny Picture Show: a weird booze-fueled rootsy collection of narrative songs roaming the streets of classic Hollywood loosely based on Ray Bradbury’s novel A Graveyard for Lunatics.

Smith is currently based out of Fort Wayne Indiana where he lives with his wife and three cats.

In addition to performing and composing he teaches music lessons to a handful of select students and continues to experiment and record at the orphanage for wayward instruments he calls Secondhand Studios.

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