Smokey Hogg
| Smokey Hogg | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Andrew Hogg |
| Born |
January 27, 1914 Westconnie, Texas, United States |
| Died | May 1, 1960 (aged 46) McKinney, Texas, United States |
| Genres | Texas blues, country blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1930s–1950s |
| Labels | Decca, Modern |
Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (January 27, 1914 - May 1, 1960) was an American post-war Texas blues and country blues musician.
Hogg was born near Westconnie, Texas, and grew up on a farm. He was taught to play the guitar by his father, Frank Hogg. While still in his teens he teamed up with the slide guitarist and vocalist, B. K. Turner, also known aa Black Ace, and the pair travelled together, playing a circuit of turpentine and logging camps, country dance halls and juke joints around Kilgore, Tyler, Greenville and Palestine, in East Texas.
In 1937 Decca Records brought Smokey and Black Ace to Chicago to record. Smokey's first gramophone record, "Family Trouble Blues" backed with "Kind Hearted Blues", was released under the name of Andrew Hogg. It was an isolated occurrence—he did not make it back into a recording studio for over a decade. By the early 1940s Hogg was married and making a good living busking around the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas.
Hogg was drafted in the mid-1940s. After a brief spell with the U.S. military, he continued working in the Dallas area, where he was becoming well known. In 1947 he came to the attention of Herbert T. Rippa Sr., the head of the Dallas-based record label Bluebonnet Records, who recorded several sides with him and leased the masters to Modern Records.
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