His songs have been recorded by the likes of Roger Miller, Glenn Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Thomas Conley, The Allman Brothers, Deana Carter, Lila McCann, Trace Adkins, Brooks & Dunn, and that's just the short list!

It was upon meeting fellow songwriter, producer and former member of the group Bread, Robb Royer, that the focus, style and direction were achieved for Micheal's CONJURE MAN recordings. "Imagine meeting Randy Newman at his home. Imagine he had never played his music to anyone. Then suddenly you see a stack of song demos in the corner of the room, 500 of them. Smotherman is like that. I just scratched the surface of his work to produce CONJURE MAN. I feel that these, and probably a hundred others, are 'artist songs' that you fully understand only when you hear them by the writer/performer. Micheal is that kind of artist," says Royer.

When asked to describe his music, Micheal came right to the point "it's Quincy Jones meets Roger Miller at Ray Charles' party in New Orleans kind of music."

A Few Facts about Micheal

• Yes, he spells his name with an ea, not ae.

• Toured extensively with Roger Miller & Fleetwood Mac's The Zoo.

• Co-wrote with Deana Carter for her multi-platinum album, "Did I Shave My Legs for This?"

• Writer of Lila McCain's career breaker, "Down Came a Blackbird."

• Co-wrote the title track for Trace Adkins' double platinum debut album, Dreaming Out Loud.

• Wrote the entire Glen Campbell album Basic.

• Wrote 7 songs on the next Glen Campbell album Highwayman

• Co-wrote "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" by Ray Charles

• Writer of more than ten #1 songs on the Country charts.