[1] Songs she recorded include "Gonna Put You Right in Jail" and her version of "Don't You Leave Me Here".
She led Laura Smith and her Wild Cats and also worked with Clarence Williams and Perry Bradford.
[1] The researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that she was born Loretta Bryant in Illinois in 1882.
It was reported that by 1926 Smith was married to Slim Jones, a comedian, and was living in Baltimore.
[6] Her most notable number, "Don't You Leave Me Here", was made more famous in a version recorded by Jelly Roll Morton some ten years later.