KID SMITH FAMILY MISSISSIPPI FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES/MAMA YOU'RE A MESS CONQUEROR 78

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2 December 1936 New York City – Walter Smith aka Kid Smith & His Family (Walter Smith [ld vcl], Thelma Smith [gt/vcl], Dorothy Smith [ucelele/vcl])

MISSISSIPPI FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES ARC 70352 03415 CQ8788

5 December 1936 New York City – Walter Smith aka Kid Smith & His Family (Walter Smith [ld vcl], Thelma Smith [gt/vcl], Dorothy Smith [ucelele/vcl])

MAMA, YOU'RE A MESS ARC 70352 03415 CQ8788

Walter "Kid" Smith

Walter "Kid" Smith (* 12. August 1895 in Carroll County, Virginia; † September 1977) was an American old-time musicians.

Table of Contents [Verbergen] 1 Life1.1 Childhood and youth1.2 Career2 Discography3 Literature4 Weblinks

Life Childhood and adolescence

Walter Smith was born in 1895 in Carroll County in Virginia, spent most of his childhood and adolescence but in Greenbrier County, Virginia. There he learned guitar playing, but never went beyond basics. Smith was primarily a singer. Later, he began to work among others as a sawyer.

The mid-1920s took Smith into Rockingham County, North Carolina, where he worked in Spray in various textile factories. At about the same time he began with other musicians like Posey Rorer play together, Will Woodlieff, Lewis McDaniel and Buster Carter. With the success of Charlie Poole, who enjoyed great success with its panels, other musicians from around came to receive records. End of the 1920s had some of Smith's friends also recorded some plates and obtained through these contacts Smith his first opportunity to record his pieces. On March 20, 1929 Smith made ??for the Starr Piano Company in her studio in Richmond, Indiana, his first recordings in which he of Posey Rorer (Fiddle) and Norman Woodlieff (guitar was accompanied).Twelve of the 14 rehearsed pieces published by the different labels of the Starr Piano Company, among others Gennett Records and Champion Records.

There were other numerous recordings for Columbia Records and the American Record Corporation (ARC). He was always among Lewis McDaniel accompanied by various musicians from his circle of friends,. In 1931 he wrote The Life and Death of Charlie Poole, which was dedicated to his friend Charlie Poole, who had died due to its fast-paced lifestyle in March 1931st Another song from 1931 was Otto Wood the Bandit, who dealt with the criminals Otto Wood from North Carolina. In the 1930s he worked as a professional musician and so earned a livelihood for his family. From his daughters he was often in those years on guitar, ukulele or mandolin accompanied. Together they went on the radio and public in North Carolina and Virginia and played atMedicine shows. 1936 Smith went along with his family a few shots for ARC. They were the last recordings that made Smith.

After the Second World War, Smith continued to travel around with tent shows and was heard on the radio. During this time, he intensified his tour activities and came up as far as Montana orTexas. Still 1966, Smith a radio show on WPHL in Winchester, Virginia, retired with his wife but three years later from the music business. They settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia, down.Walter Smith died in September 1977th