http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm Thu, 17 May 2012 00:50:58 GMT http://bandzoogle.com http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=2085697 So as many of you already know, Jennifer and I are about to make the big leap and move to Nashville to continue pursuing our dreams. Just two weeks! It seems a little hard to believe at this point, but we're definitely excited. There have been some pretty amazing things in the works for when we get up there, and we are just ready to really dig in and go for this thing! There have been a lot of people that have been thrown in to our paths through all this, and some who have turned out to be good friends as well. I've lived my whole life with this dream, but never believing that it could ever actually be possible, but I realize now more than ever that in God, ANYTHING is possible. I know we have a long way to go, but for the first time in my life, I feel like I could really have a shot at this. Of course, with every new door you open in your life, there are doors that have to be closed as well. I have been blessed enough to be part of a wonderful church family for the past few years, and I will miss the people and times that I've had here very much, but I know I'm leaving them in good hands. So now here we are, just a few weeks away from flipping our worlds and everything we've ever known completely upside down. This is what I love to do. It's my passion and what I live for. So here we come Nashville! ]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 00:50:58 GMT 433CCC518BCDAA165A34AAD90CE8AD76 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1965218 Hello guys and gals! Been a while right?!! Well, things are going well in the world of Smithfield lately. Our last trip to Nashville went very well, and we got to meet with a lot of really cool companies and people. One of the most amazing things that happened while we were there, is that we got invited to perform a few songs at the Warner/Chappell songwriter's night, which was held at Warner music publishing. It was a great experience, and we felt very honored to be in the company of such amazingly talented singers and songwriters. So after getting home from that trip it was only a few weeks before we got some other big news. It turns out that "You Go First" was selected as one of the top 25 in the Music City Songwriter's Competition that we entered back in December. This was a suprise, and we were both really excited about it. They are supposed to announce the winner sometime within the next week or two, so we'll keep you guys updated on the results. Other than that stuff though, we've been just writing and performing as much as possible. We plan on making another trip up to Nashville in late April, hopefully to do some co-writing and meet with a few more people. The support we've gotten throughout this whole process has been pretty amazing to see, and we appreciate and love all of you so much for coming to our shows, buying our music, and just being there with an encouraging word here and there. If you haven't already, make sure to download a copy of "You Go First" from Itunes, and also check out the competition we're in if you want to fine out more by going to www.themusiccitysongwriter.com Hope to see you at a show soon!
Hope to see you at a show soon!
]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:11:27 GMT 105C560FD52CD8A5E661A076E360F655 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1822898 Thanks to everyone who came out to the Opening Bell Show last Friday, we had a lot of fun with you guys! Just to fill you in on what's coming up. We have another show at Roots Coffee House this Saturday (the 3rd) in North Richland Hills at 8pm. Then on March 23rd, we'll be playing at Steven's Bar and Grill in Mansfield with our good friend Jason Nix, and Whisper War! Show starts at 6:30pm, and make sure you're their for all of it, cuz it's gonna be an amazong show! Anyways, aside from shows, we've been working on a new song called "I Can't" which we have been REALLY excited about as of late. We'll probably try it out for the first time this Saturday at Roots, but if not, then definitely at Steven's on the 23rd. Another Nashville trip is coming up soon, so we'll keep you posted on all that business. Jen and I have been working hard to get together the next set of songs for our next EP already, so we'll keep you up to date on the progress with that as well. Hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather! - Trey
- Trey
]]> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:38:08 GMT C5997C917D754620F66B77A732038EF4 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1752942 Well, we're headed back to Nashville here in a few days. We have a show coming up on the 6th at Whiskey Jam at 7:30pm at a place called Winner's Bar & Grill in Nashville. So if you're in the area, make sure to come out and say hi, we'd love to see you! Also, the first shipment of copies of our EP will arrive on Monday! So come to a show sometime and pick one up! Other than that, we've just been writing new stuff to put on our first full-length album. We have a couple of shows coming up in DFW as well, so check out the home page for info on our upcoming shows. Adam Shoenfeld, (who played electric on the EP), and Scotty Sanders, (who played Steel on the EP), have both been nominated for ACM awards, so a big congratualtions to both of them for that! You guys are awesome, and we'll be rooting for ya'll! Just a reminder that if you haven't purchased "You Go First" on Itunes yet, help us out and go download it! Also, if you really like the song, call in to your local country radio station and request it!  Hope everyone has a good start to their February tomorrow! - Smithfield   ACM awards, so a big congratualtions to both of them for that! You guys are awesome, and we'll be rooting for ya'll! Just a reminder that if you haven't purchased "You Go First" on Itunes yet, help us out and go download it! Also, if you really like the song, call in to your local country radio station and request it!  Hope everyone has a good start to their February tomorrow!

- Smithfield
 
]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:55:00 GMT B38F585DA759A567BAEAD38C4A0422BF http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1729996 So hopefully you've already taken a few seconds to get on itunes and buy our single,"You Go First". If you haven't, then you need to stop reading this immediately and go buy it! haha. So we've been working on some new tunes in preparation for the first full-length album. We've been really happy with them so far, and can't wait to play them for you guys at a show and get your input. Speaking of which, we'll be playing at Opening Bell Coffee in Dallas on February 24th, so make sure to set aside that Friday night to come and listen to some new stuff, and some stuff you may already know. We'll be headed back to Nashville earlier in February, hopefully to meet with some more people and possibly play a few shows while we're there. The response we've gotten from our single release on itunes has been absolutely overwhelming! The love and encouragement from all of you has been such a blessing to us, and it motivates us every single day to get up and write more music, and push to do what we love to do. You guys rock! So that's about it for now, hope you all are doing well, and we'll keep you posted on everything going on in the world of Smithfield. =-) - Trey
- Trey
]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:15:20 GMT 57D3A5FED4618712D6B420094BC55466 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1704039 So things have kind of leveled off since our big trip to record and releasing all these songs for you guys. We've already planned our next trip to Nashville in February, hopefully to meet with some record labels and publishers. The biggest news though, is that this week, our last song of the EP, "You Go First", will be available for you to buy on itunes! We're so excited about this one, it's probably my favorite one off the EP, and definitely the most catchy. We have loved sharing the other songs off the demo with you guys for free, so now we ask that in return, you help support our music by going to itunes to purchase our song. With the money, we'll be able to get the demo packaged and duplicated, so please help us out by buying the single when it comes out. We will let you know as soon as it is live on itunes, so make sure to stay posted on that. We have been working on a few new songs lately that are sounding great, and a few pretty awesome covers as well. Hopefully you guys will be able to come see us live, we'll be putting up some tour dates soon, so make sure to come and see us. We'd love to see you! Anyways, hope everyone's New Year has started out well, and we'll keep you updated on all the Smithfield news! - Smithfield
- Smithfield
]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:40:00 GMT BF12C468B7E31E789D5CDDB64A9DC4BE http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1658592  So the holidays were crazy, but first, let me just say that we were absolutely AMAZED at all of the love, support, and positive response that we got from the release of "The Dash". It made my holiday season to hear all of the comments that you guys posted about how much the song affected you. Music is above all else about eliciting emotions and connecting with people, so that was really cool and touching for us to hear what you guys had to say about it. THANK YOU! So tomorrow, we will be releasing the second track on the demo for you to download for FREE. It's called "In With The Old", and it's kind of a more fun, up-beat song, so we won't make you cry this time. haha. We'll post on facebook and everywhere else as soon as we get it up on the site so you can go download it and check it out. We're looking to hopefully head back to Nashville sometime in early January, possibly to meet with some people, so we'll keep you posted on all that business. Hope everyone had a great holiday with friends and family, and stay posted for when we get the new song up tomorrow. Merry Christmas, and a happy new year! - Smithfield
- Smithfield
]]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:50:05 GMT 1EF907AF241E94AB174B4E5BFC13A744 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1637270 So we made it back to Texas alright. It was a wonderful trip, and we definitely got a lot accomplished. All of you have been absolutely amazing with your love and words of encouragement over the last few days, and we haven't even put out any of the full songs yet! So from the very bottom of our hearts, we want to say thank you guys SO much. We worked very hard to get this EP together, and we are so excited to share them with you all. We will be releasing one song per week, until we have them all out. One of the biggest things you guys can do is share our website and our songs with your friends. Whether it's through social networking, word of mouth, whatever. You guys are a HUGE part of whether or not we progress through this or not, and we can't do it without you! So help us out and tell a few people you know. We'll have some 2012 show dates coming your way soon! Thanks everyone! ]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:30:04 GMT A3F62F919ACE5AD09ADC3BCA5047C5CA http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1624783 We finished the demo today! It was a long day in the studio making sure everything sounded perfect, but we are very proud and excited to tell you all that we are done! Now we're on to duplication and packaging, and then we get to let you hear it! Stay posted, as we'll be posting videos and samples leading up to the release of our first cd! Can't wait to take the next step of this journey with you all! We finished the demo today! It was a long day in the studio making sure everything sounded perfect, but we are very proud and excited to tell you all that we are done! Now we're on to duplication and packaging, and then we get to let you hear it! Stay posted, as we'll be posting videos and samples leading up to the release of our first cd! Can't wait to take the next step of this journey with you all!
]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:05:00 GMT F68E77A1C549EE574C14EB00F14189CA http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1618880 It's been a long day in the studio, but we finished vocals today, and now we're on to mixing! It's sounding great, and we're beyond excited to share what we've been doing for the past few days with all of you! We're both definitely learning a lot about the whole recording process; It consists of long hours, and making sure you get it right. Tomorrow we'll be wrapping up here, and then we'll have our first cd! That's all to report for now. Check in tomorrow for more info! It's been a long day in the studio, but we finished vocals today, and now we're on to mixing! It's sounding great, and we're beyond excited to share what we've been doing for the past few days with all of you! We're both definitely learning a lot about the whole recording process; It consists of long hours, and making sure you get it right. Tomorrow we'll be wrapping up here, and then we'll have our first cd! That's all to report for now. Check in tomorrow for more info!
]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:30:00 GMT 375D407CE597FBBB5400BA0409DCC7E5 http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1616505  The first day of recording our new E P fascinated Trey and I as we watched proffessional studio muscians bring our new songs to life. They would listen to our song one at a time, not even all the way through, then knock it out 10 minutes later. It was amazing to watch them create a tune that we had only heard on the acoustic guitar for months. After three hours of tracking the music, our producer took us out to lunch at  Barbara's Homecooking. This place didn't look like much, but man the food was out of this world! In fact, I would even go as far as to say that it was up there with Cracker Barrel. ( In case you don't know, Cracker Barrel is a must for me on every trip, I  love it! )  Anyways, after a homecooked meal, we headed back to the studio to start tracking vocals. "The dash" was our most challenging song vocally as far as getting the harmonies down just right. We only finshed tracking the vocals for one song because our steel player showed up to record his part, and by the end of it we called it a night. It was a long day, but when it is something you love and want to do for a career, 9 to 9 goes by fast.  The first day of recording our new E P fascinated Trey and I as we watched proffessional studio muscians bring our new songs to life. They would listen to our song one at a time, not even all the way through, then knock it out 10 minutes later. It was amazing to watch them create a tune that we had only heard on the acoustic guitar for months. After three hours of tracking the music, our producer took us out to lunch at  Barbara's Homecooking. This place didn't look like much, but man the food was out of this world! In fact, I would even go as far as to say that it was up there with Cracker Barrel. ( In case you don't know, Cracker Barrel is a must for me on every trip, I  love it! )  Anyways, after a homecooked meal, we headed back to the studio to start tracking vocals. "The dash" was our most challenging song vocally as far as getting the harmonies down just right. We only finshed tracking the vocals for one song because our steel player showed up to record his part, and by the end of it we called it a night. It was a long day, but when it is something you love and want to do for a career, 9 to 9 goes by fast. ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:54:26 GMT 768335FFEC5FBE51731A2F815B922E1A http://smithfieldmusic.com/blog.cfm?feature=2745525&postid=1584470 Next week is when we finally get to record! We'll be in Nashville exactly one week from today recording with Rob Dennis and his crew. We are beyond excited about this EP, and we hope that you guys are too. Some of the studio musicians we have playing on the cd are unreal. Chad, our drummer, has played on albums such as Own The Night by Lady Antebellum, and also The Band Perry's latest album and several more. Really the entire band we'll be working with is just filled with some of the best studio musicians in Nashville. I can't tell you how blessed me and Jen feel with just all that's going on right now, it's a bit unreal at times, especially considering that a year ago, Jen and I had never sung together before in our lives. We really want everyone to be a part of this journey with us though, so we're going to try to document the recording process as well as we can to keep all you folks up to date with what's going on and where we are in the process. We leave for Nashville on Sunday, and then we'll begin the recording process following Monday morning. We're looking forward to having some stuff for you all to listen to finally, and hopefully it won't disappoint. Jen and I have worked hard getting this thing together, and hopefully it will show when we're done with it, but I think it's something you guys are really gonna like! Stay posted, and we'll let you know how everything's going! Next week is when we finally get to record! We'll be in Nashville exactly one week from today recording with Rob Dennis and his crew. We are beyond excited about this EP, and we hope that you guys are too. Some of the studio musicians we have playing on the cd are unreal. Chad, our drummer, has played on albums such as Own The Night by Lady Antebellum, and also The Band Perry's latest album and several more. Really the entire band we'll be working with is just filled with some of the best studio musicians in Nashville. I can't tell you how blessed me and Jen feel with just all that's going on right now, it's a bit unreal at times, especially considering that a year ago, Jen and I had never sung together before in our lives. We really want everyone to be a part of this journey with us though, so we're going to try to document the recording process as well as we can to keep all you folks up to date with what's going on and where we are in the process.
We leave for Nashville on Sunday, and then we'll begin the recording process following Monday morning. We're looking forward to having some stuff for you all to listen to finally, and hopefully it won't disappoint. Jen and I have worked hard getting this thing together, and hopefully it will show when we're done with it, but I think it's something you guys are really gonna like! Stay posted, and we'll let you know how everything's going!
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