Kaki King meets Michael Hedges with the warm glow of Leo Kottke. That's Tom Smith. Tom's newest release, "Juliet's Window" is getting international airplay and has met with critical acclaim such as this; “The best in that style of playing I have heard.” Billy Sheehan, rock bassist “One of the nation’s premier guitarists… Juliet’s Window…a masterpiece.” The Nashville City Paper "So many people play acoustic guitar that it's impossible to have an individual style. Yet I always know Tom Smith’s unique playing within the first few seconds …His compositions are wonderful and uniquely his.” Tuck Andress – jazz guitarist, Tuck and Patti “Tom Smith is a virtuoso acoustic guitar and banjoist…his style has a hypnotically rich beauty...” Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Jazz & Blues News "This CD will redefine fingerpicking for a long time to come!” Guitar Nation.com “Head and shoulders above most of what I hear.” Will Ackerman-Founder - Windham Hill Records “Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso.” Nashville Tennessean To Say that Tom Smith sounds like Michael Hedges, Phillip Jaynes or William Lee Ellis is a hollow comparison. Smith's musical pictures flow beyond the frame of his guitar and banjo mastery. A truly gifted musician, Smith crafts mesmerizing, energizing and soulful instrumentals." Nancy Apple, digitalcity.com "Juliet's Window" was reviewed in "Sing Out" magazine's Spring 2007 issue. "Tennessee-based Tom Smith, an accomplished acoustic guitarist, banjoist and composer, has been making music for more than three decades. First appearing on the Northern California folk scene in the 1970's, he's gone on to perform cross-country -- sharing stages with the likes of Odetta, John Hammond, Jr., Dave Van Ronk and Jesse Winchester. Often compared with contemporaries like Leo Kottke and John Fahey, he has a style all his own that reflects Blues, Jazz (I hear a lot of Monk and Mingus) and early Country influences as well as Beethoven and Bach. His finger-picking technique, classical in origin, ranges broadly across the fretboard and combined with his characteristically fleet and clean, uncluttered arrangements explores a heady variety of moods from song to song. From the richly nuanced and flowing, bi-tonal banjo sound on the opening "Juliet's Window" and the dense, mesmerizing "Paper Dragons" to the playful, splashy abandon of "Child's Play" and the Fahey-like "Like Roses in the Night" with its vivid tempo shifts and intricate, occasionally frantic note patterns, Smith convinces." --GvonT Listen for yourself. Find out more about Tom at: http://www.myspace.com/tomsmithmusic or hear all 4 CDs at: http://www.TomSmithGuitar.com Looking forward to hearing your comments. "Juliet's Window", "Little Dog", "On Any Given Night", and "Musical Pictures" are available at CD Baby or at Tom Smith Guitar.com