KENNY AND AMANDA SMITH
- Kenny is from Nine Mile, Indiana. Amanda is from Davisville, West Virginia. They live in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.
- 1992, Kenny won the guitar contest at Merlefest. Placed at Winfield in ‘92, ‘93, and ‘94.
- 1993-4, Kenny was a member of Claire Lynch’s Front Porch String Band.
- 1994, Kenny joined the Lonesome River Band.
- 1997, Kenny released first solo album Studebaker
(Sugar Hill).
- Kenny’s hobby: collecting old glass marbles and restoring bicycles.
- 1998, 1999, Kenny won IBMA award for Guitar Player of the Year.
- 2001, Kenny left the Lonesome River Band to perform in a duo with his wife Amanda. They met in 1995 at a Lonesome River Band concert and married soon thereafter.
- 2003, Kenny and Amanda won the IBMA Award for Emerging Artist of the Year.
- 2004, released House Down the Block
album (Rebel).
- 2005, released Always Never Enough
album (Rebel).
- 2007, released Tell Someone
album (Rebel).
- 2008, released Live & Learn
album (Rebel).
- 2011, Kenny released his second guitar solo project “Return” (GAT-3).
- 2012, released “Catch Me If I Try” album (Farmboy).
- 2012, Kenny reunited with Ronnie Bowman and Don Rigsby (former bandmates in the the Lonesome River Band) to form The Band of Ruhks.
- 2014, Amanda won the IBMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year