Joel Smith is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who currently calls Spokane, Washington home. His first CD, titled River Roads, originally written and recorded as part of a Master's Degree project, is an entertaining mix of bluegrass, blues, country, rockabilly and other roots music that follows the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans. Spokane7.com says "Smith writes from a number of different influences, incorporating some country, folk and bluegrass into his sound.