Vinyl records

Clarence "Pinetop" Smith vinyl records

1 album with 17 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. Born: June 11, 1904 in Orion near Troy, Pike County, Alabama. Died: March 15, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. The youngest of seven children, Smith grew up in Troy and later in Birmingham, Alabama, where he became familiar with the local blues piano style. Around 1920, he moved to PIttsburgh, Pennsylvania. There, he became acquainted with Ma Rainey who performed in vaudeville with her husband as Ma and Pa Rainey. Smith became their piano accompanist on the T.O.B.A. circuit, a Black vaudeville circuit, later also performing with Butterbeans & Susie and Grant & Wilson.