About darransmith

DARRAN SMITH – Since 1989 Band Leader, lead guitarist, background vocals

I grew up in Kansas, got an old Sears guitar when I was eight, and started playing in bands in my early teens – country, ‘50’s rock’n’roll, southern rock, a little of everything. Eventually a drummer friend talked me into coming down to Nashville for awhile to check things out. I came down here in 1982, did a couple of little session things and moved to Nashville permanently in ’83. It was pretty tight for awhile, working day jobs, doing construction and whatever I had to do to get by. I ended up landing a house gig at this hotel lounge and played there for three and a half years. I met Tim in ’89; he’d just moved to Nashville and didn’t have much going on. I was playing another house gig over at a place called Sissy’s and also was playing down in Printers Alley at this club called Skull’s Rainbow Room. Tim used to hang out down there all the time and he asked me if I wanted to go play for three or four days in a club up in Delaware.