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Other interesting information about Valerie
Valerie Smith
Patchwork Heart was Valerie's first solo project and was produced by Alan O'Bryant. The CD clearly identified Valerie's wide range of musical talents and captured the attention of fans world-wide.
The song "Red Clay Halo" ranked in the top ten for most played songs for nearly two years. Valerie shares vocals on the Louvin Brother's song, "My Baby's Gone" with Charlie Louvin.
Charlie Louvin said "Val is a good singer and I bet you will like it. I do"
That's What Love Can Do
Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike
Reviewed by: B Hough
Song list:Heaven Is Waiting, Fill My Every Need, In Those Mines, Engineer, Healing Hills, Buzzed, Falling, Sarah Hogan, Rocky Island/Sally Goodin, Planet or a Star, That’s What Love Can Do, Thunder Clouds of Love, Peace of the River.
Valerie Smith has a storyteller’s sensibility and timing and a singer’s soulful vocals that leave her audience waiting to hear the next song and wonder at the realities of life. Each of the 13 songs is a gem and Valerie’s intense delivery makes heartfelt a weak adjective. Her Liberty Pike band mates add the country-flavored instrumentation that carefully frames each vignette. The opening song, “Heaven Is Waiting” is Becky Buller’s tale of a heroic mother saving her son after a tornado destroys their home. Becky also wrote “In Those Mines,” a banjo-enhanced story of those hardy souls who risk their lives for the black gold. John Lowell’s “Sarah Hogan” is a wistful tale of Sarah’s love for an outlaw with an elegant chorus that sighs, “won’t you meet me in the moonlight, Sarah Hogan... hear that prairie wolf a crying, he sings a mournful song, and I will not be lonesome with you here.” The finely tuned pen of Lisa Aschman provided the upbeat, swing tune, “Buzzed,” and the hopeful “Peace of the River.” Valerie and Kraig Smith wrote the title cut, “That’s What Love Can Do” with images like “love is like a fun house mirror.”
The band struts its stuff in the instrumental “Rocky Island/Sally Goodin.” Becky Buller pulls a warm resonant sound with her fiddle and her clawhammer banjo style resounds in “In Those Mines.” Matt Leadbetter adds a mournful dobro to “Heaven Is Waiting” and “Healing Hills.” John Wesley Lee’s powerful mandolin and harmony vocals add the perfect amount of edge to the songs and his lead break on “Sally Goodin” sizzles. John’s sister Jessica mans the bass, and Jason Johnson is the utility instrumentalist with guitar and banjo being his specialty. Such talent doesn’t go unrecognized: the IBMA has nominated Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike for Entertainer of the Year, and Valerie and Becky are also nominated for female vocalists of the year.
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