{"id":34,"date":"2013-12-29T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/2013\/12\/29\/andy-and-jan-smith-the-smith-family\/"},"modified":"2013-12-29T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T15:45:00","slug":"andy-and-jan-smith-the-smith-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/2013\/12\/29\/andy-and-jan-smith-the-smith-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy and Jan Smith (The Smith Family)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Cooper <\/b>(Dando Shaft)<\/i> writes ” Anyone who frequented Acoustic, Folk and Country Music Clubs 
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\naround Coventry and Warwickshire throughout the 60’s and 70’s would know Andy Smith. Multi instrumentalist and fabled bluegrass banjo player. With his sister Jan, The Smith Family and various ensembles including Down County Boys and the Ian Campbell Folk Group all featuring Andy’s dynamic musical fluency across banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle. He also had one of the best high and lonesome vocals ever, creating with Jan those harmonies that only siblings can. His untimley death aged 61 in 2007 after more than twelve years with Lewy Bodies Disease took away a unique talent. We are delighted to offer this collection of songs from Andy’s wife Barbara.”  On his Rare Music site here http:\/\/raremusez.co.uk\/music\/index.php\/component\/maianmedia\/?view=album&album=8<\/p>\n

On Dave Cooper’s Raremusez site you can download13 tracks by Andy and Jan for 55p each – (NOTE Raremusez site seems to have have gone down now!)
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\nTracks:
\nLittle Birdie
\nSoul of A Man
\nFoggy Mountain Breakdown
\nHey Boys
\nGot Put A Rainbow In The Sky
\nTwin Banjo
\nFly Around Cherokee
\nHello City Limits
\nEnd Of A Long Lonely Day
\nHesitation Blues
\nBaltimore Fire
\nClouds
\nWalloping Window Blind<\/p>\n

Andy Smith- Guitar, Banjo,Mandolin,Vocals
\nMike Smith- Guitar,Banjo,Uke,Vocals
\nJan Smith- Fiddle,Mandolin,Bottle-neck Guitar,Vocals
\nSteve Allcutt- String Base
\nJohn Fields- Fiddle, Mandolin
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\nMeanwhile, Marko Krnjulap<\/b> has sent some live tracks by Andy and Jan<\/b> recorded in the Old Dyers Arms folk club in Coventry in the 70’s – My Love and I \/ Who’s Gonna be your Man?.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nHere they are – (and there may be some more coming later from Marko)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn 1969, Andy and Jan<\/b> were guests (along with Jackie and Bridie<\/b>) at the Coventry Arts Umbrella Club’s Music Marathon<\/i> in November 1969.<\/p>\n

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Dave Cooper (Dando Shaft) writes ” Anyone who frequented Acoustic, Folk and Country Music Clubs  around Coventry and Warwickshire throughout the 60’s and 70’s would know Andy Smith. Multi instrumentalist and fabled bluegrass banjo player. With his sister Jan, The Smith … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventryfolkclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}