Valerie Smith
Valerie Smith is an American bluegrass singer and guitarist from Missouri who taught music in high school before moving to Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and forming Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike. Her debut album, Patchwork Heart (1998), produced with Alan O'Bryant, included Gillian Welch and David Rawlings's "Red Clay Halo," which stayed on the bluegrass charts for years and was named one of Bluegrass Unlimited's top songs of the decade. She runs Bell Buckle Records, has appeared on all three Daughters of Bluegrass albums, and has had IBMA, Grammy, and Dove nominations.
In the newsletter
- No. 16 Fall 1998
- No. 19 Spring 1999
- No. 20 Summer 1999
- No. 23 Spring/Summer 2000
- No. 24 Fall 2000
- No. 26 Spring 2001
Wrote
- "To Pick or Not to Pick": No Boundaries in the Creative Process (No. 20)