Jim Smoak
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Jim Smoak
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Jim Smoak is an American bluegrass and country music banjo player from Louisiana. Smoak may be the first bluegrass banjoist to have come from that state. Smoak was born and raised on a farm in Round O, South Carolina and learned banjo playing from his parents. He performed on WROL radio when he was eighteen years old. Smoak had a difficult time establishing an audience in his home state, so he moved north in the 1950s. Through 1953, he played occasionally with Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys; t
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American musician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Smoak
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2024-04-23T15:25:01Z
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