Robert Curtis Smith

“Robert Curtis Smith is a hard working farm laborer in upper Mississippi. He supports a wife and eight children by driving a tractor ($3 a day top) during the farming season, by hunting rabbits in the winter. He has a borrowed guitar with which he sings of women he has loved, lost, discarded, or found worthy of erotic praise. Unlike most of the young men of his generation, he reflects the softer style — if not always the songs — of the older blues. Read more on Last.fm

Robert Curtis Smith was featured in the movie Blues Like Showers of Rain.

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