Westconnie Texas born R&B performer Andrew 'Smokey' Hogg (1914 - 1960) started his career playing the logging camp circuit of country dance halls and juke joints in East Texas. He first appears as a recording artist billed as Andrew Hogg on a one off 78rpm recorded in Chicago for Decca in 1937 (Family Trouble Blues/Kind Hearted Blues). He recorded the rest of his numerous sides in the post war blues music boom in the late 1940's and on into 1958 when his last record came out on the Ebb label ( approx two years before his death from cancer in 1960).

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