Richard Smith may be the best guitarist nobody’s ever heard of – but it’s probably best not to say so. If you did, you’d risk impassioned, if not actually violent, pushback from any guitar fan who ...

With 10 solo releases to his name, Richard Smith has achieved a position in music like no other. Collecting accolades such as Best New Artist and Album of the Year with his solo debut, Inglewood. His ...

Guitarist Richard Smith has been in academia since his late teens, and now is a tenured professor at the University of Southern California, where he directs a doctoral program in guitar studies. He ...