Cal Smith
Calvin Grant Shofner, known professionally as Cal Smith, was born on April 7,
1932, in Gans, Oklahoma. He began his musical journey at a young age, starting
as a guitarist at the Remember Me Cafe in San Francisco at just 15 years old.
His breakthrough moment came when he was invited to perform on the television
show California Hayride in Stockton in 1954. Smith's career took off in the
1960s after joining Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours as a guitarist from 1962 to
1968. His first solo album, "Drinking Champagne", was released in 1968. In 1971,
Smith signed with Decca Records (lat...
