Smoky Babe
Smoky Babe
Top Songs
| 1 | Cold, Cold Snow [Remastered 2001] | ||
| 2 | Coon Hunt [Remastered 2001] | ||
| 3 | Boogy Woogy Rag [Remastered 2001] | ||
| 4 | Ocean Blues [Remastered 2001] | ||
| 5 | Locomotive Blues [Remastered 2001] |
Albums
Jul 2014 • 17 songs
Jan 1963 • 12 songs
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Biography
Robert Brown aka Smoky Babe is a shadowy figure from the early days of the '60s folk-blues revival. The scant details of his life read like a prototypical country bluesman's bio; born in Itta Bena, MS, in 1927, raised on a plantation, had a hard life of sharecropping, picked up the guitar along the way, spent several years hoboing throughout the South, moved to the big city and found life no better there. He apparently only worked sporadically as a semi-pro musician for a spell in New Orleans in the '50s, returning to his adopted home base of Scotlandville to work as a garage ...