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4. Enter the Garden
When I began the process of putting together my Retrospective, reviewing old recordings, it wasn’t all the joyful experience of unearthing forgotten treasures. It is the nature of the relatively amateur and short-term quality of so many of these projects and the often rushed and chaotic recording processes that not every track was a golden…
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3. Sweating the Technique
My first “professional” gigging happened started in summer 1994 when I joined up with Reggae Ambassada, serving SE Michigan playing Bob Marley hits but also more contemporary dancehall styles as well as a good quotient of soca (“Hot Hot Hot”) and classic calypso. It was around this same time that the jams my friends and…
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2. Talkin’ Solo Guitar
I thought that before we get to the story of my start in music we should establish where I am now, where I’ve gotten to. I’ve had all sorts of passions, teachers, bands, projects, experiments and experiences over the years, and I always try to bring everything along with me into what I do. What…
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1. Let Me Clear My Throat
My mother always told me that it was rude to talk about oneself too much, especially if not asked. As backhanded advice this one stuck with me. Maybe call it foundational. I was born in 1968 and came of consciousness in the mid 1970s when letter writing was still the central form of family communication…
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WELCOME! Read Me First
Greetings and welcome! My name is Neil Dixon Smith, I’m a guitarist living in Chicago and this is a blog dedicated to me telling the story of my life in music via my recording career spanning 1996-2026. Effectively this blog will be a companion to a 32-track compilation released in June 2026 of music featuring…