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Band Name: Linda Smith
Website Address: http://www.samegirldifferentday.com

Soundfile : Like It Is

Linda Smith is a talented singer/songwriter in the Chicago area. She has successfully completed national tours, multiple cd projects, and a rockumentary about her career. She has been a popular guest on the KLYV morning show and was voted Most Talented Unsigned Artist by the MIX in Chicago. She has played at the Park West for Atlantic and Columbia Records and at the Taste of Chicago when former President Clinton was attending. She garnered recognition in Billboard’s Songwriting Contest for her ballad, Fall In Love Again and has a certificate of appreciation from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc., Chicago Chapter.

Linda was born and raised an Iowa girl. She wrote her first song when she was in elementary school, created her first demo in high school, and released her first project in college.

The appropriately titled Cry Baby Cry cd was completed while Linda was touring with a college band. This is when she started filming her music videos, completed a national tour for the first time, and began receiving radio airplay in the midwest. Linda made the move to Chicago and released The Same Girl, Different Day cd. It was the product of a year’s worth of writing and recording. This project reflects falling in love with that one person that becomes your muse, lover, close friend, and soul mate. The cover shots were taken in the Bad Lands on a Harley trip to Sturgis.

She then began work on the Linda Smith Greatest Hits: Journey to Now project. It is the culmination of a decade of writing and recording. It includes Linda’s favorite songs, the most requested during a live performance, songs that were given the most radio airplay, and even a couple that have never been released. This is a solid project. Even though the songs have been recorded over the years with different musicians and under different circumstances, there seems to be a unifying sound and focus.

Biker Chicks Make The Best Cd’s

Chicks on Harley’s are cool, you see them everywhere now. They are not only riding hogs, building bikes, and starring in reality television, but they are writing songs and releasing cds. Linda Smith is an authentic Harley riding, Sturgis running biker with long hair and a tan that looks like she has been wearing her goggles all day long. She is most likely to show up in jeans, black leather boots and a guitar strapped to her back.

Her cd releases Same Girl Different Day and Linda Smith’s Greatest Hits: Journey to Now feature authentic photos from the Bad Lands taken by her biker brother, Daria Lyskawa. This wasn’t a staged shoot, they were biking about 11-13 hours a day through scattered rain and harsh sunlight. A lot of women wouldn’t enjoy a trip like this, but Linda wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. “I wake up every day and think about riding my bike. I love it. There is something about the open road, the wind in your hair that makes you feel free.”

Her music is just as down to earth as her lifestyle. Linda has some fun with the Ex-Girlfriend Song, which she sang over and over again during a breakup. It is one of her most popular bar songs and it is fall down funny.

Linda also talks about some of the more reflective songs on the project:

Day By Day: At the beginning of a relationship you want to just jump in and rush it or define it. If you let it unfold day by day it will become something very beautiful. It’s just hard to let it become without controlling it.

Ordinary Life: I just want to be with you at the end of the day and share our lives together. It doesn’t have to be action and entertainment all the time.

Ode To A Modernday Mother is a simple accoustic song showing how hard it is to raise a daughter on your own. There is that first sadness you feel when you leave to go to work and she cries and cries for you. Then there is the second one when she doesn’t cry any more and she expects you to leave.

To find out more about Linda Smith go to samegirldifferentday.com.