Songwriter Round w/ Emily Smith, Stephen Lee Veal & Emilee Shuler

Emily Smith hails from Gulfport, MS and toured with folk rock band, Rosco Bandana, for three years before pursuing her project, Della Memoria, alongside husband Josh Smith, whose three albums you can stream on iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Their first album was featured on Pandora’s Curator’s Choice and they have had songs featured in a Netflix film and various documentaries. She can be heard singing and playing piano on various tracks by Mobile’s very own, Abe Partridge. Within Della, she creates ethereal, lyrically driven balladry amid dreamy soundscapes with undertones of folk.

Stephen Lee Veal was Raised in Music Traditions of Tulsa, then a family move to the Gulf Coast added the influences of Jazz/Blues/Swamp Rock/Southern Gospel. Stephen Lee’s first cut, recorded at Duane Allen’s (Oak Ridge Boys) Studio, by The Gulf Coast Quartet played on Southern Gospel Radio back in the 70’s. Later in Nashville, Stephen Lee wrote with several #1 hit song writers, played 27 shows at the Bluebird Cafe, where his “Mardi Gras Song” has been Performed every Fat Tuesday by co-writer Les Kerr (from Mississippi) for over 20 years. Stephen Lee Veal's CD of original songs, with an emphasis on songs that tell stories, “No Lifeguard By The Gene Pool” was chosen by Southland Music Line’s Johnny Cole as #6 of “Ten Favorite Albums of 2020. Stephen Lee is steadily adding to his list of co-writers, Nashville & Local.

Emilee Shuler is a Mobile native and music lover to the core. Music has always been a part of her life, whether she was performing in musical theater, karaoke, performing at voice recitals, or later, writing her own music and playing open mics and various live gigs. After many trials and tribulations accompanied by a decade of writer's block, the music coming out of her mind hole is mostly cathartic since conquering sobriety, and she is still searching for her sound. For now, she is just allowing whatever comes out of her heart and soul to pour out and hope that it sounds decent enough to play in front of folks.

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