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Davey Smith’s song “These Boots Ain’t Just for Show” is available for download at daveysmithmusic.com. It will be included on an album expected to be released later this year.
Davey Smith grew up dreaming of playing in Yankee Stadium. And now he’s doing just that.
No, it’s not baseball he’s playing. It’s a song, titled “These Boots Ain’t Just For Show,” and the Yankee Stadium crowd hears it over the loudspeakers whenever New York reliever Shawn Kelley comes in to pitch.
Smith is a local singer and songwriter who met Kelley over the winter at a SCORE International fundraising banquet in Fort Oglethorpe, where Kelley was a guest of featured speaker Andy Pettitte. The two have a mutual friend in Eric Henderson, who works with Smith and whose wife is a friend of Kelley’s wife.
Kelley is from Louisville, Ky., but now makes his home in the offseason in Chattanooga. The Smiths and Kelleys have children attending the same pre-school.