BRUCE THOMAS SMITH
SONGWRITER - SINGER - GUITAR SLINGER
"Among the best in original roots rock-n-roll, the "Guitar Slinger" label fits him well!"
Positively Entertainment Magazine, Portland, Or.
"A National Northwest Treasure!"
Doug Smith - Grammy Winner/World Champion Finger Style Guitarist
"A fellow troubadour and song traveller"
Mary Fahl - Former singer for October Project
"Wow, ANOTHER guitar player from Texas!"
Mike Mitchell - The Kingsmen, Portland, Or.
"Your CD (The Secret Dances) is chock full of fun and interesting songs"
David Zychek - (Nightranger, Airborne) - Owner Hombre records, Dallas, Tx.
"Bruce Smith probably doesn't eat Kix for dinner"
Oregon Coast Today Magazine
"...famed Oregon songwriters (written regarding Jon Koonce & Bruce Thomas Smith)"
Oregon Coast Magazine - (About the Stormy Weather Arts Festival Concert in Cannon Beach, Or. - Featuring Bruce & Jon)
"Smith's music is an acoustic marvel that lures audiences, and keeps them hooked."
Hitt Music - Los Angeles, Ca.
"It's Rock-N-Roll. It's Folk. It's Texas blues. it's EVERYTHING it needs to be to
reach out and grab you by the soul!"
Donna Johnson - BAZZIRK, Austin, Tx.
"A Roots-Rocker of some considerable talent, good straight-ahead Rock-N-Roll"
Crow & Wolf Music, Woodstock, NY.
"There is a vibe to Bruce's music that makes you want to play it again, and again, and again..."
Eric Turner - ET Productions - Phoenix, Az.
"...a veritable who's who of the Pacific Northwest blues community."
Quoted in "Blues Notes" Magazine, Portland, Or.
"Bruce Thomas Smith is a Texas native transplanted into the Great Northwest. This award-winning Songwriter-Singer-Guitar Slinger fronts the "Boda Boyz" - ( for "Bodacious? ) - Twenty plus years of rippin' it up come out loud & LIVE for every show! He can play those guitars with just about ANYTHING, beer bottle, sauce pan, jelly jar..."
Positively Entertainment Magazine - Portland, Or.