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Pinetop Smith

Among the traveling forces at the rear of the arrival of boogie-woogie piano, Clarence “Pine Best” Smith rates being among the most influential blues numbers from the 1920s. Created January 11, 1904, in Troy, AL, he grew up in close by Birmingham; a self-taught participant, he began carrying out at …

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