Caitlyn Smith Finds Destiny in Tacoma: Debuts Documentary During Nashville Film Festival

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  (Press Release) – Singer-songwriter  Caitlyn Smith  debuts  All the Way to Tacoma, a documentary which follows her 3,000-mile train trip from Memphis to Tacoma, during the Nashville Film Festival  Friday, April 21 (8:30 PM/CT) and  Tuesday, April 25 (8:30 PM/CT).
 
Shot last spring by director/cinematographer  Justin Key  the documentary follows Smith on a cross-country trip on an Amtrak train joined by fellow Nashville-based writers  Ruston Kelly, Bob DiPiero,  Paul Moak  whose work has appeared on numerous Platinum and Gold albums and been featured on hit T.V. shows such as, “Nashville,” “One Tree Hill” and “Pretty Little Liars” and  Rollie Gaalswyk. 
 
“Working with Caitlyn on this project was an incredible moment in my life,” said Key, who edited the documentary and produced the work with  Shea Fowler. “Piecing together this film can only scratch the surface of how amazingly talented she is.”

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The inspiration for the trip stemmed from a song Smith co-wrote that was that would ultimately appear on her critically acclaimed 2016 five-song release Starfire, called “Tacoma.” It was a song title inspired by the day she had her first write with DiPiero.
 
“I was trying to come up with something on the way to [the writing session], and I had never written with Bob before,” Smith said of how the song came to be. “I put in the address of his office, and my Google Maps took me to Tacoma, Washington. I saw the word Tacoma and I thought, ‘Man, that’s such a great song title. I just love that idea: how you hurt so badly you drive as far as you can to try to take your mind off the pain.'”
 
She walked in having never met the Hall of Fame Songwriter who has 15 No. 1 songs to his credit, but she knew what she wanted to write about.
 
That single word sparked a melody. “It just fell out of the air,” said Smith. “When I got to the write I said, ‘Bob, what do you think about this?’ And we started singing and wrote the song so quickly. It was the first time we had ever written [together], and it is one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever been a part of.”
 
That’s saying something when you consider that Smith’s catalog of songs includes cuts by such high-profile artists as Meghan Trainor (“Like I’m Gonna Lose You”).
 
Smith and the cast of accomplished Nashville tunesmiths composed songs and stories written over the course of the 3,000-mile Amtrak journey that started in Memphis and passed through Chicago and Seattle before ending in Tacoma, known as the “City of Destiny” as the area was chosen to be the western end of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The excursion ended up revealing a woman on the verge of musical and personal discovery as she prepares to release her full-length debut album on Monument Records.

To learn more about  All the Way to Tacoma  and purchase tickets visit  here. ​