Cal Smith (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Calvin Grant Shofner (born April 7, 1932), known professionally as Cal Smith, is an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hit "Country Bumpkin." Smith was born 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 15, 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.