Spark Plug Smith

Country blues singer and guitarist, who recorded twenty titles for ARC (ten of which remain unissued) in 1933.

Born: Date and location of birth unknown

Died: Date and location of death unknown

"This singer is not the same artist as [a=Six Cylinder Smith]. Despite their apparent common preference for car parts as nicknames, though Spark Plug Smith reputedly took his name from a race horse." Source: Blues and gospel records 1890-1943 (1997), p. 836