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On the eve of the US presidential elections, Fred Smith leads a musical safari through the main streets and back roads of the America.

Songwriter, traveler, diplomat, raconteur, author and pisstaker, Fred Smith is a national icon. He has struck artistic pay dirt more than once with his remarkable travelogue albums.

Fred travelled to Washington DC in 2004 and spent three years living and touring in the US in the second term of George Bush Jr. He returned to release the album Texas, at 12 songs suite documenting a divided America shaky and hungover the early years of the Bush administration.

The critics loved the album. Warwick McFadyen in the Sunday Age, wrote “Smith breezes across country, folk, soul and blues to deliver his wry observations on American life”.

Bruce Elder from the Sydney Morning Herald was more expansive:

“It is about time Australia caught up with Fred Smith. This remarkable singer-songwriter – who at various times reveals influences that range from Paul Kelly via Lou Reed to Loudon Wainwright III to Leonard Cohen – keeps releasing amazingly accomplished albums. His latest is the product of three years playing the US East Coast folk circuit. It is a wonderful, quirky and irreverent look at the United States and its idiosyncrasies…He has a love–hate relationship with America, which he has neatly coupled to a wry and profound understanding of that complex society”.

Fred will be presenting songs from Texas and a few more he has written since, interspersed with yarns and observations from his inconclusive experiences in the home of the free. He will be accompanied by Liz Frencham on double bass and Carl Pannuzzo on percussion.

It is Fred Smith doing what he does best: harnessing song, story and comedy to convey a nuanced comprehension of complexity - a nourishing journey for those who don’t mind a bit of protein in their music.