Kathy Smith

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Kathy Smith was an American singer-songwriter from Californian who performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. Smith was part of the California folkie scene, playing at local venues and coffeehouses. A legendary venue (but rather unknown) was Paradox where people like Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne, Steve Noonan, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen, and Penny Nichols used to play. Nobody found out about the place so it had to close down. The musicians found a new podium at the Troubadour. Smith started to share stages there with people like Penny Nichols, Pamela Polland and Jackson Browne (which explains how their songs ended up on her albums). Polland (known from her album The Gentle Soul) was going to appear on Smith's debut album. Penny Nichols, who first sang with a bluegrass band with John, Bill & Alice McEuen (until John took Jackson Browne's place in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), then formed a duo with Kathy Smith called the Greasy Mountain Butterballs which toured Vietnam in the fall of 1966. A testimony from her days at the Troubadour related how “Kathy was the first person I ever heard use the term "Love Generation", and she was housemother to the bunch of us. And she had this 100 megawatt smile.” Smith recorded a couple of albums for Richie Havens' Stormy Forest label in the early 70s, a label that didn’t really make it enough and was closed down pretty quickly. The albums' personnel included Colin Walcott (only later he was going to focus much more on his

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albums

Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word

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Some Songs I've Saved

Some Songs I've Saved (Digitally Remastered)

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Plain Sailing: An Acoustic Alternative

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Women Blue - 16 lost US femvox classics - Remastered

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Babe, It's A Mystery

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Feel The Spirit

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Lady Folk Psych Rock Mix

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Podfitness

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Kathy Smith 2

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Kathy Smith (Remastered)

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