American Stories" is a theme album related to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Smith was invited to perform the album at the Kern County Museum, which he did on January 14, 2018. He also performed the entire album for the Bakersfield High School on January 17, 2018, and at the Centennial Rodeo Opry in Oklahoma City in August 2017. Smith toured the United States, Europe and Mexico. Although primarily a headliner, he sometimes opened for other artists during 2015-2016, including Rita Coolidge, Jon Pousette-Dart, and John Ford Coley. He has performed at The Bitter End in New York, The Clive Davis Theatre at The Grammy Museum, the Troubadour in Hollywood, The National Sylvan Theatre in DC, and The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. In April 2018, Smith performed on Song Of The Mountains, which is recorded before a live audience and also syndicated on PBS television throughout North America. In August, he performed on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour, which is carried by more than 500 radio stations and also broadcast on PBS television. In 2018, Smith's original song "Man Of Steel" was named the official theme song of the National Veterans Foundation. In the same year, Smith appeared as one of the performers at The Indie Collaborative's debut public performance at Carnegie Hall. In 2022, Smith performed a cover of Michael Stephenson’s "My Prison" to raise funds. All funds were donated to the National Veteran's Foundation. Later in 2022, Smith again performed at Carnegie Hall for the "Celebrating Earth Day in Song" presented by The Indie Collaborative. The event featured award-winning Emmy, Grammy, and Billboard top 10 musical artists. As an author In September 2018 Smith released a Christmas single and children's book that he wrote, called "Fly Possum Fly." He enlisted country prodigy EmiSunshine to be the featured vocalist on the song. Before his music career Before focusing on his musical career, Smith worked in the scientific measuring equipment industry in various positions. He eventually started his own company, Dewetron America, Inc, which he sold to Dewetron GMBH of Austria, leaving completely in 2017. Smith and his company provided numerous systems to NASA for the Constellation Program. The company won the NASA Tech Briefs Product of the Year Award four times under his leadership, in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015. In 2016 he was requested by MEDICAL DESIGN BRIEFS to write an article outlining his perspective on the