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Cal Smith (born July 04, 1932) is an American country musician, most famous
for his 1974 hit "Country Bumpkin."
Career He was born with the name Calvin Grant Shofner on July 4, 1932, in
Gans, Oklahoma, and was raised in southern California. He began his music
career performing at the Remember Me Cafe in San Francisco at the age of
fifteen, but he was not financially successful at first. Throughout the
1950s, he was not able to continue his music career, so he worked at
various other jobs, including truck driving and bronco busting. He appeared
on the California Hayride television show in the mid-1950s before serving
two years in the military.
After his discharge, he began playing in a band in the San Francisco Bay
Area. In 1961, country music legend Ernest Tubb heard the band play and,
after an audition, hired Smith to play guitar for the Texas Troubadours.
Thus, Smith is heard playing in most of Tubb's 1960s
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