Real name: Talmadge De Witt Smith

Effective period / Period of releases: 1982

Kit Smith was a country musician and vocalist from California. While serving in the Navy, Kit was a featured vocalist with Spade Cooley's Band. Upon his return to the US he teamed up with Bozo Darnell starting the Big Spring Jamboree in Texas until his family obligations required him to exit the endeavor. He would become involved in a "get rich quick" scheme which led to his incarceration at San Quentin for 52 months, during which time he began songwriting. After his release from prison, Kit worked as a foreman at the Diablo Nuclear plant but was known as "the iron worker from Grover City". The same year he completed his second album "From a Prison to the Free World", Kit won the Best Gospel Singer Award at the 1978 Bakersfield Country Music Festival.