John Smith to headline Birmingham's Glee Club tonight
Ben Howard called him a magician. David Gray liked him so much he put him in his band. And Kelly Joe Phelps described his music as honest and true.
Now fans can get to see what all the fuss is about when singer/songwriter John Smith headlines Birmingham's Glee Club on Sunday.
John's played to audiences all over the world, in living rooms, festival tents and sold-out concert halls. He tours relentlessly with guitar and suitcase, sometimes with a small band.
John has opened shows for Iron and Wine, John Martyn, Tinariwen, Gil Scott-Heron and John Renbourn; and has performed alongside the likes of Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Chris Thile, Martin Carthy, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and Rodney Crowell.
It's all for the love of the guitar. John plays a rumbling fingerstyle and sometimes uses a slide, sometimes plays the guitar on his lap, sometimes he detunes mid-song. His guitar work and honey-on-gravel vocals have brought crowds to pin-drop silence. John has four records out: The Fox and the Monk, Map Or Direction, Eavesdropping and Great Lakes.
