454 Clarence “Pine Top” Smith (1904-1929) “Pine-Top’s Boogie Woogie” 1928

“Although he was far from the first to play in this style, Smith’s record firmly associated the word [boogie] in the public’s mind with the insistent eight-to-the-bar bass…Smith was on the brink of an illustrious career when he was shot, depriving the world of an exceptional talent” (Encyclopedia of the Blues, 2006). 

Clarence “Pine Top” Smith “Pine-Top’s Boogie Woogie”