William D. “Smitty” Smith

William D. “Smitty” Smith offers a unique touch and audio on electrical keyboards in the times ahead of digital sampling. Maybe befitting a program man, this artist’s nickname is usually honestly the dullest among the monikers obtained by performers called Willie Smith, the redundant Smitty sounding poor in comparison to Big Eye, the Lion, or the obscure VERY LONG TIME. Smith takes on on many strike records including songs by Tracy Chapman, Billy Joel, as well as the Wayne Gang, to choose a small rather than exactly compatible blend from his extended discography. One of is own earliest looks was around the Canadian music group Motherlode’s 1969 strike “WHILE I Die” (unrelated towards the Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears tune from the same name). However, Bloodstream, Perspiration & Tears frontman David Clayton-Thomas enjoyed what he noticed more than enough to enlist Smith for the single project a couple of years afterwards and by 1977 he was an random person in the group itself. The gospel atmosphere within a lot of his playing appealed to manufacturers in a number of styles including folk-rock, the stylistic mishmash of Ry Cooder tasks, as well as the jazzy virtuosity from the Pointer Sisters. Smitty surely got to make his very own Smitty LP for A&M circa 1978, his one obvious effort being a single artist having a lot of wistful romantic materials.