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After another week or so in england richard flew to finland for more concerts. He started playing guitar when he was five years old and played on stage at the her majestys theatre in london when he was eleven years old. Richard smithjulie adams concert west sussex guitar club. His repertoire includes country, bluegrass, blues, ragtime, folk, jazz, pop, and classical music. Richard smith net worth lets check net worth of english guitarist richard smith. All photos live videos gear interviews tutorials albums tour charts contact gear.
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Richard is extremely well established as a solo artist within the contemporary jazz genre, releasing albums of original music and creative covers. Smith previously formed the richard smith guitar trio with his brothers sam and rob before he tied the knot with an american cellist julie adams and moved to nashville, tennessee in 1999. Richard stanley guitarsmith stringed instrument repair. Richard smith tabs guitar solos, tab books, instruction. Check out the latest richard smith guitar albums, live videos, workshops, and news.
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Now residing in nashville, richard has toured the world as a solo artist, teaming up with his wife julie adams for a unique guitar and cello duo, performing with his brothers rob and sam as the richard smith guitar trio and with his swing band, the hot club of nashville, featuring stuart duncan on fiddle, pat bergeson on guitar and charlie. Licensed to virtual sheet music by hal leonard publishing company. Richard smith is an english guitarist specialising in the fingerstyle guitar tradition of merle travis, chet atkins, and jerry reed. In real life, hes a retired associate professor of radiology at indiana university school of medicine who prepares radiopharmaceuticals glowinthedark drugs for diagnostic nuclear medicine.
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