Steve Smith Music Site: Legacies Alive- Family Picnic

Private Event- Want to stay connected with us and be the first to know all the new happenings? That can happen right here -->www.SteveSmithMusicSite.com. There was the time a chance meeting at a business in Nashville led to Steve jamming with country music legend Charlie Daniels. Or the story about how a 12-year-old boy traded away his dirt bike to get his very first banjo, which Steve learned to play while listening to the radio in his father's car. Since those days, Steve has gone on to open for Darryl Worley, Lee Brice, David Nail, David Allen Coe and the Oak Ridge Boys just to name a few. His song "Wishing Well" spent three weeks at #1 on the Indie Charts while another original charted #12 in Australia in 2012. And to think it all started during a square dance at a building owned by Smith's grandfather. "When I heard the live music it stirred something deep inside of me. I had to get up and crack my heels with the other folks that were dancing. I was having one of the greatest moments of my life when I began watching the banjo picker's fingers. I was simply amazed by what I saw," says Smith. It wasn't long before Steve had a banjo in his own hands. He was able to borrow one from a family friend and taught himself to pay by listening to the radio in his dad's car. Steve remembers the day the family friend came back to collect the banjo and the realization that Steve's family couldn't afford to purchase it. "I swallowed real hard because it was a lot of money. I think my dad swallowed harder than me because he was just happy I didn't break the thing while I had it, " he laughs as he recounts. Things worked out in Steve's favor. While the banjo was worth over eight hundred dollars, the family friend saw how much the banjo meant to Steve and agreed to trade it to him for a three-hundred dollar dirt bike. "Words can not describe the joy I felt that day. I still have that very banjo and it was played when I won a banjo picking contest in Friendsville, Mar