Hobart Smith, 1897-1965, was one of America's greatest traditional musicians. He was a multi-instrumentalist and is best known for his virtuosic performance on the banjo, fiddle, guitar, and electric guitar. He also performed often on the piano and other string instruments. He was the oldest of four brothers in a family of eight children born to King and Louvine Smith. Smith was born and lived in Smyth County, Virginia. He is considered a master technician of the banjo as well as a creator of innovative techniques on the fiddle, on which he utilized multiple styles and interpretations of classic Anglo-American and Celtic folk songs. But due to no commercial recordings during and after his death he was little known to the public at large except in smaller circles within the old-time music community. Hobart Smith and his sister, Mrs. Texas Gladden, first came to be known to the public through a record made in 1963, recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congr

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