Fink, Mark “Now’s The Time”Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, 2000 "On the opening track of Steve Earle's classic El Corazon ... Earle makes a plea for Woody Guthrie to "come back to us now." And though there haven't been any Woody Guthrie sightings in recent years, it seems that Earle just might have a kindred spirit in a young folk singer named Stephan Smith."
allmusic.com
Mason, Stewart (April 23, 2004). “Slash and Burn – Stephan Smith”. AMG, Billboard Bits, Billboard. "Opening your album with a title track decrying the consolidation of power in the music industry, naming names in the process, is a moderately impressive act, but making the song sound like Phil Ochs as backed by the Roots is a conceit of enjoyably perverse genius."
Bessman, Jim, (May 10, 2003). "Servicing Global Justice". Words&Music, Billboard. "His single "The Bell," recorded with Pete Seeger, Ween's Dean Ween, and hip-hop-artist Mary Harris, was hailed by the Guerilla News Network at the "anti-war anthem for our generation."
difrent.org
"Who We Are". Difrent.org. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
Keller, Tom (October 2003). “Stephan Smith, "New World Worder". Folkworld, Issue 26. "Stephen is almost single-handedly taking the protest song into the 21st century"
"Stephan Smith – Slash & Burn" Artemis Records CD release flyerArchived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine KochB2B.com. April 12, 2004. "The heir apparent to Woody Guthrie, this southern boy-street mechanic writes songs 'to change the world,' mixing Appalachian folk and bluegrass fiddle with a healthy dose of hutzpa…his foot stomping singalongs have amassed a steady following of believers, from indie-folkers Ween to Pete Seeger." – Ferguson, Sarah, The Village Voice (undated.)
“All Songs Considered: Inspired Music |Stephan Smith interview" (RealMedia, Windows Media). All Things Considered, NPR Music. April 2, 2003. "I wrote "The Bell" in response to the current push for war in Iraq, but had all war in mind, in which a few wealthy individuals lead whole nations of honest people into violence for gains that remain only in the hands of those few."
nytimes.com
McKinley, Jesse (October 12, 1997). "Making it work, Abner Louima meets Joe Hill". New York Times. "The timing turned out to be impeccable. The song quickly found a home on pirate radio in the East Village, and within a week had made its way onto the national airwaves via the left-leaning Pacifica Radio Network and its 25 affiliates, including WBAI-FM in New York. ... In fact, so strong is the buzz on Mr. Smith that last week he was asked by the grandfather of American folk music, Pete Seeger, to update perhaps the nation's most famous protest anthem, We Shall Overcome."
Straus, Neill (September 12, 2002). "Giving Peace a Chance Again". The Pop Life, New York Times. ".. on Monday, one of the first major songs to directly address the nation's stance toward Iraq was released. It is "The Bell," by Stephan Smith, a folk singer whose songs echo Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie."
Smith, Stephan (May 14, 2006). “Hey, Neil Young: We young singers are hog-tied, too”. Sunday Insight, San Francisco Chronicle. "While established artists like yourself may have felt your hands tied, the truth is far worse for upcoming artists: Even booking agents and managers won't touch us for fear that we will offend their audiences in a country where consumerism and patriotism stand united, as your song "Restless Consumer" makes clear.”
stephansaid.com
"Stephan Said". Stephan Said. February 3, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
vietnamsongbook.org
"Show Press". The Vietnam Song Book. "The Bell" ... addresses U.S. policy towards Iraq through allegory, with a child figure who stands firm, rejecting the successive war cries of a "man at his desk," until the song finally culminates with the boy's assertion that a bell they hear is calling the bureaucrat to hell. With his rough-hewn good looks and mythic songwriting, Smith is the closest thing to this generation's Woody Guthrie."
web.archive.org
"Stephan Smith – Slash & Burn" Artemis Records CD release flyerArchived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine KochB2B.com. April 12, 2004. "The heir apparent to Woody Guthrie, this southern boy-street mechanic writes songs 'to change the world,' mixing Appalachian folk and bluegrass fiddle with a healthy dose of hutzpa…his foot stomping singalongs have amassed a steady following of believers, from indie-folkers Ween to Pete Seeger." – Ferguson, Sarah, The Village Voice (undated.)
Fink, Mark “Now’s The Time”Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, 2000 "On the opening track of Steve Earle's classic El Corazon ... Earle makes a plea for Woody Guthrie to "come back to us now." And though there haven't been any Woody Guthrie sightings in recent years, it seems that Earle just might have a kindred spirit in a young folk singer named Stephan Smith."
Carpenter, Troy (March 23, 2004). “The Tangled Web”. AllBusiness.com. "The politically charged "You Ain't a Cowboy" is being offered through Smith's official web site, political action organization TrueMajority.org, and legitimate music download service Audio Lunchbox."
