Aaron Smith (musician)

Aaron "A-Train" Smith is a Nashville based drummer and percussionist.

Still a teenager, Aaron Smith played drums on The Temptations' megahit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (which was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973), and played with Ray Charles as well. Later on he joined Romeo Void. From 1984, Smith played with the Sacramento based rock band The 77s. After recording Drowning With Land In Sight in 1994, Smith left The 77s to join Rich Mullins's A Ragamuffin Band.

Smith has recorded and toured with dozens of other artists over the years, including Jimmy Abegg, Michael W. Smith, Margaret Becker, Vector, dc Talk, Rick Elias, Mitch McVicker, Riki Michele, Cindy Morgan, Charlie Peacock, Romeo Void, and others.

Selected discography

• Mannequin Virtue, Vector, 1983 album
• All Fall Down, The 77s, 1984 album
• The 77s, The 77s, 1987 album
• 88, The 77s, 1988 album
• Sticks and Stones, The 77s, 1990 album
• Pray Naked, The 77s, 1992 album
• Drowning with Land in Sight, The 77s, 1994 album
• Brother's Keeper, Rich Mullins, 1995 album
• The Jesus Record, Rich Mullins, 1998 album
• Prayers Of A Ragamuffin, A Ragamuffin Band, 2000 album