[2] While still in his teens he teamed up with the slide guitarist and vocalist B. K. Turner, also known as Black Ace,[2] and the pair travelled together, playing a circuit of turpentine and logging camps, country dance halls and juke joints around Kilgore, Tyler, Greenville and Palestine, in East Texas.
[1] By the early 1940s, Hogg was married and making a good living busking around the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas.
These songs included his two biggest hits, "Long Tall Mama" in 1948 and another Broonzy tune, "Little School Girl.
[1] His playing tended to be rhythmically inconsistent; author and critic Peter Guralnick observed that “there is never any beat as such to Smokey Hogg’s music, though a pulse can sometimes be detected”.
[7] Hogg was reputed to be a cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins and to be distantly related to Alger "Texas" Alexander, but both claims are ambiguous.