About The Jury.

The Smith & Western Jury sound like the moment a freight train barrels past you — loud, fast, and impossible to ignore. Forged in the backrooms and beer-soaked stages of Naarm/Melbourne, the band deliver a rock-driven punch laced with a western twang — familiar at first glance, but unmistakably their own.

Their 2024 debut Hotel Texas didn’t just introduce them — it put everyone on notice. The record earned ABC Country’s Feature Album of the Week, with rotation across Saturday Night Country, Edge of Country, and Henry Wagons’ Tower of Song on Double J. Cinematic clips for “Button That Collar” and “Hotel Texas” also landed on CMT Australia, expanding the band’s growing reputation for drama and scale.

Now they return with new single “Rolling The Dice” — a blistering, desert-baked track inspired by a 2025 trip through Joshua Tree. It captures the band at their most urgent: reflective, restless, and unafraid to stare down risk. It’s a song about landscape, legacy, and what happens when you move through the world without fully understanding the ground beneath your feet.

In October 2025, the band stepped into the studio with producer Jordan Koop (Orville Peck, PONY) to record their second full-length album. The new material pushes harder and cuts deeper — proof that The Smith & Western Jury aren’t slowing down.

From Out On The Weekend and Queenscliff to Tamworth and Meatstock, and supporting heavyweights like Ella Hooper, Luca Brasi and Henry Wagons, their live show stomps, sweats, and leaves no one standing still.

The train isn’t stopping — it’s only picking up speed.

The Smith & Western Jury are: 

Samantha Lombardi, Simon Torcasio, Kevin Orr & Aaron Barnett.

Photo by Dan Shaq.