guitarist so we're going to have a good conversation with him welcome to the show above nice to have you here today thank you made me here well does it tell us how you got started playing the blues well in my younger songs a now also learned a lot of grew songs and that's where i started with and as a blues really appealed to me more because there was also gospel which i was associated with so it did three things kind of kind of work out together and that's what i was involved in how old were you when you started well my parents tell me that i was able to play a couple tunes on a guitar when i was four years old i remember that how you play jazz to i heard you perform and you're playing jazz is really great what is is there a difference between how you approach the guitar with jazz as opposed to the blues how do they cross over how does that work they really cross over  lot about jazz and i was they were to do the two things working together because they played both jazz and blues so it was a very influenced influenced me a lot ok is there a connection between the blues and classical music idea is you know there any kind of connections any similarities that you can think of not that i know of because i was never involved in classical music sound and i listen to it some time but i can't i one thing that we had that made us kind of stand now because at that at that time the two major roads they came to georgia was route one and route eighty and they crossed in my hometown  the number job we're playing but now a job seem to be coming more and more people your skull in this area so so we must be doing something right so it is mostly for jazz or blues or ball where we mostly jazz but i don't play a  when they discovered that jazz in particular along classical music helps to develop the high level thinking of the brain the high level the capacity to exercise a higher level thinking through her brain and and it's just really interested in how they say the kind of music a different time the crowd changes ok yeah because a lot of people don't want to hear jazz so they leave me out which is fine to me and that's really interesting because i think the idea of yes some people cd here by bob smith trio and what do you remember the song you just mentioned this on this cd blue green beans groove green and the name of this is a beautiful friendship so at the end of the show there will be mr smith's e mail address if anybody's interested in hearing him live or or in his c v you'll be able to do that by getting his e mail address so who are some of the people that you played with are there any people whose names we might these clubs in newark and i share now remember my first year in high school because i love music my father is a jazz musician at the time i was playing a flute i thought i could do something with it and so my friends and i we snuck down into the class i think it was a tele club or business you talk about that you know because it's always a balancing act between your professional life as a musician and you know taking care of your family you know like how did you balance all that well it was clear i'm going to turkey for a while because i'm glad i'm not a star now and then yeah but this is music is it's really grown so much you know i think it's gotten better and better and better and resilient and gotten better so that all the jazz schools and blues school and everything and they're just coming out  other people and watching other people have i saw someone that there was playing i learned a lot are when i was in high school there was a band it came to a blues band and they were looking was like i was like the bass player in their bed here and the guitar player was really a good piano player and i used to watch him cause that horse and stuff he was doing i had never seen before ok now so when i got home i down and play whenever a guitar then i learn how did not do that and as that's what really got me started on that sound i've been lucky and i've been i've just been reading in this people there was in first practice and learn you learn your trade and i guess trying to meet the right people that want to put you in the right direction yeah because the competition is tremendous and it is important now do you think for musicians to learn to read music yes always here because as i think i'm not as far as i would be if i had to learn to read music because i never read you know i'm self taught all the way so reading music is always a plus as we get away with a lot of things because my keyboard layer  to nine thirty right yeah it's early nine it's food is excellent and female can eat for half price is it a bar i can i can give witness