Walter "Kid" Smith

A performer might be tempted to change a name as ordinary as Smith, and maybe that's the reason why a good deal more than half the recordings made by this old-timey musician came out under pseudonyms. For whatever reason that Walter "Kid" Smith decided to submerge his identity, the result was a kind of musical obscurity, despite his many accomplishments as a player. Smith grew up in Virginia, where he began working in the mills before becoming a professional boxer. He picked up the nickname Kid in the ring, which may have had something to do with either his size or attitude, ...