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How does one categorize an artist who, during the span of his career, has sung for
Barbra Streisand's wedding, performed at countless functions for people such as Steven Spielberg, Aaron Spelling, and the
late Sonny Bono, played harmonica and scat rapped alongside Salt'N Pepa on Quincy Jones TV show Vibe, played alongside Chaka
Khan at a Grammy Awards Party for Black Entertainment Television Corporation, and has had the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Eddie
Van Halen, Jerry Lee Lewis and Greg Allman, among countless others, join him on-stage for impromptu jam sessions.
Preston
has performed on The Tonight Show along with the late Jimmy Stewart and released an album on Curb Records entitled Preston
Smith. He appeared on the hit movie soundtrack Cocktail starring Tom Cruise with the title song Oh I Love You So, which he
composed, produced and performed. The soundtrack went on to sell over six million units foreign and domestically. Roseanne
Cash then recorded his song Black and White, which released as a single, rose to number 30 on the country radio charts and
was included in her greatest hits CD which went on to sell gold. Prestons latest CD's are" That Real Feel",which he
produced and released on his own label, was recorded live in the studio and is a combination of many genres of the past.
Other CD's
include...........
" Romancing the Blues"
a holiday CD. "Christmas Blues and Other Standards" and two new projects
in the works entitled "A Night Blooming Jazz Man" and an all acoustic Solo performance Cd called " So Lone".His Music has
been used by Arron Spelling,Fox for Fast Lane....and his "You Can't Take It With You" song was used in the Julia
Roberts movie 'TheMexican" and new release for Artisan Films "Roger Dodger". His song The "Ways Of Sin" was recently recorded
by Bonie Raitt Band and Fleetwood guitarist Rick Vito and is receiving airplay in Europe it is also included in a new
CBS Reality TV show.Preston has performed
on many live radio and cable TV shows on both the east and west coasts, and has performed live on club circuits,Averaging
200 shows a year, in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville. His multifaceted talent has enabled him, both with his band and
solo acoustic, to share stages with a diverse crowd of performers ranging from KROQ alternative rock favorites such as The
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fine Young Cannibals, Fishbone, Wall of Voodoo, Concrete Blonde, Charlie Sexton, The Mighty
Lemon Drops, and The Bonedaddys, to rock, R&B, and blues legends such as James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Bonnie
Raitt, k.d. Lang, John Mayhall, Albert Collins, Tower of Power, As well as Guitar hero's like Joe Satriani, The Ventures,
Dick Dale & the Deltones ,David Lindley, and Blues rock legends Eric Burden & the Animals, Delbert McClinton,
Paul Butterfield, Poco, Charlie Musselwhite, Joe Louis Walker,Johnny Johnson, Booker T. & the MGs, The Ink Spots,Mitch
Ryder, The Coasters, Savoy Brown, Marshall Tucker Band, Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Yougbloods, Donovan, Commander Cody,
Asleep at the Wheel, N.R.B.Q., Buster Poindexter, Mink DeVille, The Tubes, The Busboys, El Rayo X, John Stewart, Al
Stewart, The James Harmon Blues Band, Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers, Billy Vera & The Beaters, The Palladins, The
King Bees, and Jack Mack & the Heart Attack. .........Preston's FAMILY HISTORY
includes a maternal Grandfather who's mother was one Sarah Cooke a great great grandaughter of English Sea Explorer Captain
James T. Cooke and a maternal grandmother who's father was Benjamin Boone a grandson of Ezra Boone, Daniel Boone's oldest
son who started his family in Mexico. ....WOW!After finding Preston Smith through his website, his long lost relatives from Texas attended
a recent show
bearing the news that Smith is related to Elvis Presley.
As it turns out Presley's mother,was a Smith,Gladys
Love Smith's Grandfather was Robert Lee Smith, who was a brother of Preston's great ,great faternal grandfather.
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