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Bobby Earl Smith

Austin, Texas singer/songwriter. He is a UT-Austin law school graduate from San Angelo who played bass in Austin, Texas country bands in the 70s. Bobby Earl Smith was among the first musicians in Texas to make music that both rednecks and hippies could dance to while enjoying a cultural armistice of sorts down at the corner beer joint. An important figure in Austin’s 1970s cowboy-hippie heyday —he was part of both Marcia Ball’s Freda & the Firedogs and Alvin Crow’s Pleasant Valley Boys — Smith occasionally has surfaced with a record featuring his own songs, singing and guitar playing.