Corey Smith was a high school English teacher who couldn’t stop writing songs. The Georgia singer songwriter built one of the most devoted grassroots followings in American roots music by playing relentlessly, writing with blunt honesty, and connecting person to person, town to town. His Southern-inflected folk-rock rings with the authenticity of someone who lived every word before writing it. When Corey Smith plays, the room goes quiet in the best way.
