Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "John T. Smith (1896 – June 30, 1940) was an American Texas blues musician, who had a short lived recording session with Vocalion Records. Little is known about his life, although he was a busking street musician in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. He was believed to born sometime between 1880 and 1890. Smith played at parties, juke joints, and fish fries. In a two year period, from 1930 to 1931 he made close to twenty recordings. Among the songs he recorded was his trademark song, "Howlin Wolf Blues". On occasion the recording company would call him "The Howlin Wolf", and he may have had a musical influence on the young Chester Burnett who in the late 1940s and 1950s, was billed as Howlin' Wolf. Smith's style of playing was reminiscent to Blind Lemon Jefferson."@en }
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- John_T._Smith_(blues_musician) abstract "John T. Smith (1896 – June 30, 1940) was an American Texas blues musician, who had a short lived recording session with Vocalion Records. Little is known about his life, although he was a busking street musician in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. He was believed to born sometime between 1880 and 1890. Smith played at parties, juke joints, and fish fries. In a two year period, from 1930 to 1931 he made close to twenty recordings. Among the songs he recorded was his trademark song, "Howlin Wolf Blues". On occasion the recording company would call him "The Howlin Wolf", and he may have had a musical influence on the young Chester Burnett who in the late 1940s and 1950s, was billed as Howlin' Wolf. Smith's style of playing was reminiscent to Blind Lemon Jefferson.".