Cal Smith Lyrics

Cal Smith (born April 7, 1932) is an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hit "Country Bumpkin." CareerHe was born with the name Calvin Grant Shofner on April 7, 1932, in Gans, Oklahoma, and was raised in Oakland 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 19... read more