![]() ![]() Smith said fans can expect to hear the hits from “Leave a Whisper” along with a healthy cross-section of songs from “Us and Them” Shinedown figures to continue enjoying momentum as the group tours this fall with Godsmack. The effort has paid off, as “Us and Them” has kicked out a string of rock radio hits. Smith was candid in admitting that as the band’s chief songwriter, he felt considerable pressure to deliver another hit CD with “Us and Them.” When Shinedown finally came off the road in spring 2005 after some 400 shows, “Leave a Whisper” had topped 1 million copies sold. I was really given a one-in-a-million (second) shot.”Īt the suggestion of Atlantic A&R representative Steve Robertson, Smith relocated to Jacksonville where one by one he met the other future bandmates - Todd, bassist Brad Stewart and drummer Barry Kerch.įrom there, the band’s success was built mainly the old-fashioned way - with a combination of two years of heavy-duty touring behind “Leave a Whisper” and a series of singles that all went top five at rock radio. It was signed for nine months and then I was dropped and then I was signed two weeks later to a development deal (with Atlantic). “It was a band that never, ever saw the light of day. ![]() “What basically happened is I was signed to Atlantic with another band,” Smith said. In fact, the wheels were in motion for Smith to succeed well before there was a Lynyrd Skynyrd connection. Shinedown certainly doesn’t need to apologize for its success - which has continued unabated with the band’s second CD, “Us and Them.” It really helped the band and brought us to another audience.” “The Skynyrd cover, it wasn’t a planned thing,” Smith said. The song got posted on the station’s Web site, where listeners downloaded the song some 500,000 times. Shinedown was asked to play “Simple Man” by a deejay at a Boston radio station, WAAF. The cover of “Simple Man,” was hardly a calculated attempt at getting airplay by covering a popular song. For one thing, Smith and Todd met at a studio in Jacksonville where Todd was working, and it wasn’t until later on that Smith found out about Todd’s relationship with his future wife, Melody. ![]()
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