J.D. Smith (UK)
A Jukebox Riot
AMBA 1002
© Ambassador Records 2007

All instruments & voices - J.D. Smith & Darrel Higham

J.D. Smith's debut album was recorded and produced by Darrel Higham - who also lent his amazing guitar skills - to create an album that owes as much to Johnny Cash as it does to Iggy Pop.

Taking elements of County, Rock n' Roll and a dash of Punk, J.D. Smith's Jukebox Riot is an album that is trying to stand apart while glorying in all that has come before.

J.D Smith is a London based solo blues/punk/rockabilly who has been working for the past 4 years to bring Rockabilly back from the brink and allow this amazing music to gain a larger audience. Having stayed outside of the Rockabilly scene (but some very enjoyable times within), where Rockabilly music has found itself very much alive but stuck, J.D. has played in venues that include the Luminarie (in support of Wanda Jackson) the Barfly (upstairs and downstairs), the Fly, Purple Turtle (Camden), the Cafe de Paris, the Dublin castle, the Hope and Anchor, the Bull & Gate, the Notting hill arts club and the 12 Bar Club.

J.D's debut album '' A Jukebox riot,'' which was recorded 2007 by Darrel Higham (Modern Rockabilly guitarist). The album has been picked up by Total Rock's radio station, who carried out an hour long interview for their Rockabilly/country show and a number of underground magazines including Bizarre magazine, the Music Magazine and Bubblegum Slut. With an idea, a guitar and a heap of Punk rock thrown in J.D. is hoping to wake people up to the idea that a solo act doesn't have to mean folk, it can also be dangerous again.

''Everbody deserves a little rockabilly in their lives...and if twang's your thang, Mr Smiths got it in buckets. From the lowdown, honest-to-goodness stomp of ' This
Violent Heart' and ' Kicking Machine' to the tender strumming of 'Time', JD Smith's take on old-fashioned rock and blues is charming and toe-tappin', delivered with a directness and honesty that tips it's hat to the spirit of Charlie Feathers and other long-gone knee-tremblers.''
Bizarre Magazine

''These tracks jitter along with a barely contained energy and excitement and real passion to match Smith's technically faultless playing. You sort of imagine this is what it must have been like to hear this music for the first time before it got tired
with use and re-use.'' Bubblegum Slut

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1. ( You don't have to look good ) you just have to move
2. This Violent Heart
3. Rocket n Roll
4. ( Good times ) Rock n'Roll
5. Move Slowly ( There will be blood )
6. Kicking Machine
7. Get my coat and go
8. Moonlight/Starlight
9. Time
10. Tease me/Please me
11. Rock with the money
12. Jump

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