Grant Maloy Smith
InterContinental Music Awards Winner
2024 – Best of America | American Roots
Grant Maloy Smith is a Billboard Top 10 recording artist and MusicRow Country Breakout charting songwriter of American Roots music. His Americana theme albums, including DUST BOWL: AMERICAN STORIES, APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES, and MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES have all earned rave reviews from Americana Highways, MusicRow Magazine, Bluegrass Today, Roots Music Report, and more. Over the years his albums have spent 17 weeks on the Billboard charts, including eleven weeks in the Top 10 on the Americana/Folk album sales chart and #12 on the Country album sales chart. Grant has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and has won numerous awards, including two Grammy® certificates. In 2020 he was inducted into the Indie Music Hall of Fame in Hollywood. Critics have raved about his music, including:
“… lyrics and music as potent as Woody Guthrie … A reminder of the darker period of Bob Dylan, and it’s that good, that memorable…”
~ NO DEPRESSION magazine
“If you took a few ounces of Willie Nelson and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, mixed them carefully Grant Maloy Smith would appear … One day we’ll be talking about how Grant Maloy Smith is a national treasure – like John Prine. I’d be the first to say it’s so.”
~ AMERICANA HIGHWAYS magazine
Grant’s song “Man Of Steel” was adopted by the National Veterans Foundation (www.nvf.org) as their official theme song. His single “I See You” was released with the support of Masterpiece Living, an organization dedicated to creating better lives for our elders. And a song he wrote, “I Reckon,” spent weeks on the MusicRow CountryBreakout charts.
Grant’s charming Christmas song “Fly Possum Fly” (featuring county singing sensation EmiSunshine) was both a radio single and a children’s book. Grant added book festivals and book signings to his itinerary, which continues now as a second book in the series, published by Headline Books.
Grant Maloy Smith is a member of the CMA (Country Music Association), AMA (Americana Music Assocation), TCMA (Texas Country Music Association), NARAS (The GRAMMYS®), and is the co-founder of the Indie Collaborative, a group of more than 2,000 independent musicians and music industry professionals.