5-piece, philly-based rock band. Debut album out now.

Ben Smith     |  songwriter/teacher/author

West Chester, PA's Ben Smith, formerly of The Gilroys, Wise and Foolish Builders, and Missing Palmer West, is back this spring (2025) with a new album, Outro. It's got the usual front parlor and back barroom piano thing going on--but now with more blips and blorps.

Outro (and 2019’s Picardy) are the latest albums from prolific songwriter, Ben Smith. It joins a long line of song projects Ben has taken on over the last 20+ years—with bands (The Gilroys, Wise and Foolish Builders, Missing Palmer West), solo records (2011’s Crooked Earth, 2013’s EP Ravine Road), his annual Old Man Winter holiday song catalog, his songs-for-hire project Songsmith, and his in-the-works musical Page Two.

Smith, from West Chester, Pennsylvania has been one of WXPN’s long time favorite, local singer-songwriters, supporting his songs on the air and showcasing them in an episode of their Key Studio session video series. XPN’s program director Bruce Warren is a fan, calling Smith’s music “all good things warm and welcoming.”

​Most of Ben’s songs are written at the piano, and sound both traditional—at home in some front parlor or back barroom—and sophisticated, something overheard echoing down a chamber hall, often accompanied by strings and other elaborate arrangements. It’s Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Randy Newman, Rufus Wainwright, and Ray Davies--or at least that's the plan. 

You can find, listen, and purchase all of the songs here. Or on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever music is streamed.

Links here: https://linktr.ee/Bensmithsongs?fbclid=PAdGRleANOrrFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp3tyoGhn7yBP-a4ACNfUN2ZWgX3L5amDZm3glA5iWiO-VgBEWHZkYXIGwrkl_aem_sGCMM6cMPAcVcdkRxsX2gw

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