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Mr. Smolin
12+ albums
baroque popAllmr rogers
about
Mr. Smolin is the performance moniker of Los Angeles songwriter Barry Smolin, aka Shmo. Best known as the host of the psychedelic radio show The Music Never Stops on KPFK 90.7 FM in Southern California, Smolin has been writing songs for 30 years in a variety of genres, finally settling on a piano-based offbeat pop sound that reflects influences ranging from Stephen Foster and Hoagy Carmichael to poet-artists like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen to singer-songwriters like Cat Stevens and Harry Nilsson and Elton John and David Bowie and Randy Newman and Tom Waits to pop eccentrics like Gilbert O'Sullivan and Tim Buckley as well as theatre composers like Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim, among many others. Smolin's first band, The Wake, formed post-high school in 1978, was also his first musical interaction with the artist now known as Stew, who played guitar in that late-adolescent outfit. Other members of the group included drummer Eldad Tarmu (now well-known as a jazz vibraphonist), bassist Viken Garabedian, and pianist/singer Ron Dumas (later of Dumas & Attack Group), who also wrote some of the songs. The Wake played its first professional show together in April of 1979 at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA. The group disbanded in 1980 after a year of gigs in the Los Angeles club scene. The next 21 years Smolin spent variously playing solo (including appearances at Gerde's Folk City while residing in New York in the mid-'80s), as a duo with college-chum Harvey Canter, and as
top songs
albums
At Apogee
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Weeds: Music From The Series Vol. 3 (OST)
The Crumbling Empire Of White People
Weeds (Music from the Series, Vol. 3)
Weeds: Music from the Original Series Vol. 3
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Weeds - Music from the series Vol. 3
Bring Back The Real Don Steele
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Weeds: Music From The Series Vol. 3
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Weeds: Volume 3
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bootleg demos
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Weeds: Music from the Series Vol 3
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Weeds: Music from the Series, Vol. 3