Cleveland spring 2016
Operating Manual
Empty eyes are never filled
Hungry hearts aren’t always healed
Past provokes the mind
Future floats in feel
Now is dance of chance and laugh
Now is scent of peel
Now is knot of know and no
Now is art of deal
Then becomes a climbing wall
Then composted real
Then tells truths in lies not whys
Then is filling field
Tomorrow’s then is when of will
Tomorrow’s tool of trade
Tomorrow breeds today’s fool
Tomorrow now abrades
Is is us walking path
Is is bus off road
Is ain’t is and is ain’t ain’t
Is just what it is
– Smith, 4.9.2016
Five years ago I started posting my word/voice jams with the late Peter Ball’s music/mix/recording online at
. . . now have 107 songs there under Mutant Smith which have 8,544 listens. Currently #5 on the Cleveland blues chart. Started at 24, got as high as 2, usually in the top 10. There’s only 29 Cleveland blues bands on ReverbNation.
Most recent six songs are to the music of Ball’s friend Billy Clarksville because Peter died last year (1949-2015).
I see myself as veering between werewolf blues and werewolf rock cuzza the growl howl groan moan tone.
107 free listens, free downloads unlike anything you’ve heard – whether that’s good or not is up to you, though some say there’s a Captain Beefheart Howlin’ Wolf Tom Waits element to my graveled delivery.
