Steuart Smith

Steuart Smith (born 24 June 1952)

Career

Smith has recorded and/or toured with many musicians, especially, but not exclusively, country musicians, including Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, Wynonna Judd, Terry Clark, Trisha Yearwood, Rodney Crowell, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Don Henley, Patty Smyth, Vince Gill, and Shawn Colvin. Smith has also produced for many musicians, at least partly as a result of encouragement from country music producer and record executive Tony Brown. as well as Crowell's 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt.

In August 1997, Smith supported singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin as lead guitarist in her trio on Sessions at West 54th, a music program for public television which was taped at Sony Music Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan.

Smith was hired by the Eagles in 2001 after Don Felder was fired from the band due to legal and monetary disputes.

Smith was a member of Don Henley's solo touring band and occasionally played concerts with Glenn Frey. He and Eagles touring drummer Scott Crago were in Henley's touring band for his 2016 world tour.

Personal life

Smith previously lived in Baltimore, Maryland, Arlington, Virginia, and Falls Church, Virginia, but he has since moved to Salem, Massachusetts.