8. Steve Smith drives a bus and a rockabilly band.
Series: Day Job: How (Seattle) Musicians Pay the Rent
From: Joshua McNichols
Length: 00:04:29
I interview Seattle's non-professional musicians about their dayjobs, mixing in music and ambiance from the workplace. The series gets at something universal - how to achieve balance and contentment in life.
Steve Smith drives a bus for King County Metro. He also drums in a rockabilly band.
Day Job is an ongoing series. New entries will be added to PRX thirty days after episodes debut at Seattleweekly.com.
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Piece Description
I interview Seattle's non-professional musicians about their dayjobs, mixing in music and ambiance from the workplace. The series gets at something universal - how to achieve balance and contentment in life. Steve Smith drives a bus for King County Metro. He also drums in a rockabilly band. Day Job is an ongoing series. New entries will be added to PRX thirty days after episodes debut at Seattleweekly.com.
Broadcast History
Ran May, 2008 on seattleweekly.com.
It has not yet aired anywhere on the radio.
Transcript
For the Seattle Weekly, this is Day Job
Day Job is a look at how musicians pay the rent.
Like most drummers, Steve Smith carries around a spare set of drumsticks. He whips them out and plays a rockabilly beat on the steering wheel the King Couunty Metro Bus he's driving today.
SMITH: (DRUMMING SOUNDS)... And then a train beat... (DRUMMING SOUNDS)
Steve's a driver. He drives Metro route 76 between Downtown and Wedgewood. And he's responsible for the driving beat behind a country western band called Knut Bell and the Blue Collars. He even co-hosts the Rockabilly program ?Shake the Shack? on radio station KEXP. But most of the other drivers at North Base have no idea he's a musician.
SMITH: They're all wondering what I've done to deserve this. 'Who's this guy think he is? Somebody special? I've been drivin' for 30 years, nobody ever talked to me before.'
North Ba...
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Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felina | Knut Bell and the Blue Collars | Honkahillarockabilly. | Marlingspike Music | 2004 | 01:15 |
| Local Yokel Lounge | Knut Bell and the Blue Collars | Honkahillarockabilly. | Marlingspike Music | 2004 | 00:50 |
| Pour Me Away | Knut Bell and the Blue Collars | Honkahillarockabilly. | Marlingspike Music | 2004 | 00:30 |
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- Steve Smith (steve_smith_3.jpg)
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