Mr. Smolin
Los Angeles, CA
Pop / Cabaret / Singer/Songwriter
Bio
Mr. Smolin is the performance moniker of Los Angeles songwriter Barry Smolin, aka Shmo. In 2001, Smolin wrote the batch of tunes that would become his 2004 album "At Apogee," a lush, non-linear song-cycle produced by Stew. Mr. Smolin's 2nd album is another collaboration with Stew entitled "The Crumbling Empire Of White People," released in June of 2007. Mr. Smolin's music is featured in the Showtime television series "Weeds." In addition, the song, "The Earth Keeps Turning On" is also featur...
Press
“Recorded live and on the cheap, Bring Back the Real Don Steele is an ambivalent valentine to Los Angeles in all its slippery seismic serenity. Yet it’s a Southern California album that doesn’t sound like a typical regional album. This is less the rockin’ Los Angeles of the Doors, X and Red Hot Chili Peppers than the city of understated intimacies and fractured realities heard between the grooves of Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, Tom Waits’ Nighthawks at the Diner, Randy Newman’s non–“I Love L.A.” L.A. material, and in the Negro Problem albums helmed by Smolin’s longtime mono-monikered friend and sometime producer, Stew.”
Artist Stats
Fans: 3,288
Song Plays: 3,025
Visits: 1,292
Video Plays: 9
Widget Hits: 28,604
Status
Status:
Mr. Smolin loves you.
