Suwanee, Georgia
50 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"The waiting is the hardest part."

BIOGRAPHY

I am who I am, just when I think I know something I find out I don't know that much but I try to have fun in this thing we call "life". Had the pleasure of co-writing, playing music and meeting friends: Darrell Hayes; Mike Lynn, Jeff Scott, Jule Medders, Morgane (Hayes) Stapleton, Chris Stapleton, Greg McKee, JT Cure, Mike Owens, Richard Bailey, Mike Henderson, Mike Dekle, Danny Dean, Jilly Martin, Daren Shumaker, Steve Mitchell, Heather Chase..... The songs here are worktapes. Also check out MySpace Music & BandCamp.com: by searching john brocksmith music.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Country, Blues, Rock

PUBLISHING COMPANY

MMI Publishing, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: MMI, Inc.
Publishing: MMI, Inc.
Label: MMI, Inc.
Music Supervisor: MMI, Inc.
Booking: MMI, Inc.
Administrative: MMI, Inc.

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

bass / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / harmonica / vocals

INFLUENCES

The Band, Karla Bonoff, Randall Bramblett, JACKSON BROWNE, The Byrds, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Cream, RODNEY CROWELL, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CSNY, Dire Straits, BOB DYLAN, The Eagles, STEVE EARLE, Dave Edmunds, Joe Ely, JOHN FOGERTY, Radney Foster, Free, Lowell George, VINCE GILL, Steve Goodman, David Grissom, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Warren Haynes, LEVON HELM, DON HENLEY, JOHN HIATT, Waylon Jennings, HAL KETCHUM, CHRIS KNIGHT, Mark Knopfler, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, David Lindley, Dave Mason, MAC MCANALLY, Delbert McClinton, JOHN MELLENCAMP, Willie Nelson, Lee Roy Parnell, Jon Randall, GRAM PARSONS, TOM PETTY, Poco, JOHN PRINE, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Seger, Joe South, JD SOUTHER, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Storyville, Marty Stuart, Richard Thompson, Pete Townsend, The Traveling Wilburys, Jerry Jeff Walker, STEVE WARINER, KEVIN WELCH, Bocephus, Kelly Willis, Dwight Yoakam, NEIL YOUNG and....too many to name.

DAY JOB

Commercial Real Estate

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG CUTS

Jason Clark - "Love Fades Away"

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

Crossfield Music Publishing - Tricia Walker - "Cowboys Are Easy To Rope"

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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On Track: Josh Turner

“It’s pretty secluded and private out here,” he says of the homestead he shares with wife, Jennifer, and their two boys, Hampton, three years old, and Colby, just seven months.

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Merle Haggard: As He Is

“Songwriting gets harder and harder, unless you just want to try to write a better version of what you’ve already done,” said Merle Haggard, 73, sitting in a Middle Tennessee studio and making clear that he wants much more than that.