Grant Maloy Smith

Grant Maloy Smith is the very definition of a journeyman musician, working steadily as a bandleader, film composer, and singer/songwriter for decade after decade. He got started as a pop musician, leading a band called Britannia in the '80s, but he drifted toward Americana in his middle age, gaining attention for his 2017 album Dust Bowl: American Stories. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Grant Maloy Smith fell in love music as a child, learning how to play guitar after his family moved to Rhode Island when he was a teenager. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design...