This edition of Narrative features an interview from StoryCorps, an oral history project that collects the voices of our times. At the StoryCorps mobile booth in Columbia in 2016, James Emerson Smith had a conversation with his son, James Emerson Smith Jr., about their early jobs and creative interests. In the 80s, James Smith Jr. was a member of a band called The Root Doctors that still tours to this day. At the time, James was just discovering his passion for the bass guitar. For more on The