Alton Smith
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | Originally from Fitzgerald, Georgia (about 3 hours south of Atlanta), I moved to Chicago in the fall of 1993. Currently I'm teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music (Soul Ensemble, American Pop Troubadors) and working on side projects here and there. |
| Interests | Music, Politics, History, Literature, Baseball |
| Favorite movies | The Hustler, A Face in the Crowd, Brazil, Twelve Angry Men, Harold and Maude, You Can Count On Me, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, The Believer, The Producers, History of the World Part 1, The Corporation, Dead Man, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Bulletproof Heart, Raising Arizona, Duets, The Manchurian Candidate (the original), Angels in America |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Stevie Wonder, Victoria Williams, Buddy & Julie Miller, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Lucinda Williams, Elvis, The Band, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, R.E.M., Miles Davis, Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel, Bill Evans, Ollabelle, Bruce Springsteen, Drive-by Truckers, Kelly Hogan |
| Favorite books | Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), Lost In the Cosmos (Walker Percy), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), Effortless Mastery (Kenny Werner), The Human Stain (Philip Roth), Honest to God (John A.T. Robinson), Disturbing the Peace (Vaclav Havel), Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Feast of Snakes (Harry Crews) |