His songs have been recorded by:
Jim Post
Anne Hills
Gordon Bok
Liam Clancy
Jimmy Buffett
Claudia Schmidt
Steve Goodman
Jerry Jeff Walker
John McDermott
Trout Fishing In America
Tony Trischka & Skyline
Cherish The Ladies
Gibson & Camp
David Allan Coe
Small Potatoes
Bonnie Koloc
Tom Russell
Marie Eaton
Tom Rush
etc....

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"Chicago's premier folk singer." -Chicago Sun-Times

"Michael Smith is the most under-recorded genius among great singer-songwriters." - Sing Out! Magazine

"Smith continues to expand the concept of the folk song, layering image upon image and sound upon sound, creating an environment as vivid as those created by Richard Thompson or Leonard Cohen " - Performing Songwriter Magazine

"He's been writing a formidable catalog of songs, most of them so densely packed with vivid imagery that they demand and hold nothing less than the listener's full attention." -Dirty Linen Magazine

"Michael, Margaret, Pat And Kate... was the finest song collection to be released during the twentieth century, and I'll stand on absolutely anybody's coffee table - famous and anonymous - and repeat that truth till you all finally get the message." -Michael Devlin, Music Matters Review