Listen & view Smoky Babe; Herman E. Johnson's lyrics & tabs

Smoky Babe (Robert Brown) was born in 1927 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, a farming area some fifty miles from Clarksdale, the country blues capital of the world. His background consists of the stuff of which country blues singers are madea few months of school, early years as a sharecropper on a plantation raising cotton, corn, and garden vegetables, frequent moves to other plantations when the crops...read more