SANTA BARBARA

I had just arrived after driving cross country to attend a friend’s wedding.  It was my first time in Santa Barbara and I was taken by its sheer beauty.  Yet there was this underlining tension in the air (perhaps the result of 3 days of driving).  As I unwound with my guitar on the beach overlooking the Pacific, the sunset gifted me this song.  Many years later I recorded SANTA BARBARA.

Song Title: SANTA BARBARA

Track Number: 9
Album Title: TRUE BLUE
Artist: Old Blue
Record Label: Namesake Music
UPC/EAN Code: 884502 473612
Released 01 June 2009
Composed and Produced by: RB Smith
Copyright (c) Namesake Music, BMI

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SEE ME THROUGH

I almost never “write" a song.  I usually just let it happen to me.  My songs are almost always deeply personal and are triggered by some sort of event, or a person, or place which somehow had the ability to move me.  The music always comes first and then I try to write down what I think the song is about.  Buried within those words - are the lyrics.

There has been one exception to the above.  When I was performing as a solo artist, I woke up one morning and said, "Today I'm going to "write" a new opening number."  So I sat down, picked up my guitar and within a couple of hours, I wrote SEE ME THROUGH.

It seems fitting that I should perform it for you now in The Old Blue Theater.

                                                          











Song Title: SEE ME THROUGH
Track Number: 1
Album Title: SEE ME THROUGH
Artist: Old Blue
Record Label: Namesake Music
UPC/EAN Code: 884502 436365
Released 01 June 2007
Composed and Produced by: RB Smith
Copyright (c) Namesake Music, BMI

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SUMMER IN THE CITY

I was sitting on a park bench in the early evening after a very long day - just me and my guitar.  I was lamenting the fact that summer had almost expired and I never got a chance to get away.

And then this song came to me and took me where my body couldn’t go.



Song Title: SUMMER IN THE CITY

Track Number: 7
Album Title: THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
Artist: Old Blue
Record Label: Namesake Music
UPC/EAN Code: 884502 574098
Released 01 June 2010
Composed and Produced by: RB Smith
Copyright (c) Namesake Music, BMI
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SEASONS

Many years ago, my best friend at the time was a fellow musician. It just so happened that his girl friend was my next-door neighbor who I also knew very well. It was inevitable that whenever their relationship ran into trouble, I found myself in the position of being “Mr. In-Between”.

Their rocky relationship was the genesis of my song SEASONS.

Song Title: SEASONS
Track Number: 8
Album Title: THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER
Artist: Old Blue
Record Label: Namesake Music
UPC/EAN Code: 884502 574098
Released 01 June 2010
Composed and Produced by: RB Smith
Copyright (c) Namesake Music, BMI

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http://OldBlue.info/

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