Valerie Smith

Missouri is the musical crossroads of the nation, and Valerie Smith heard western music drifting in from the high plains, jazz wafting along the Big Muddy from Kansas City, and the clarion call of bluegrass from the east. 

She moved to Nashville and eventually formed the acoustic country group Fresh Cactus and played extensively while honing her songwriting and performance skills. 

Valerie's love for bluegrass music never waned, and while attending a festival in Franklin, she met old time musicians Junior and Betty Parker who adopted Valerie, and invited her to play with them in the tiny Tennessee hamlet of Bell Buckle.

Together with local entrepreneur J. Gregory Heinike she founded Bell Buckle Records and Valerie recorded her first highly acclaimed CD, Patchwork Heart and formed her band, Liberty Pike.

Valerie Smith

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