Clara Smith has been played on NTS in shows including NTS 10 Curated by Liz Johnson Artur, featured first on 21 April 2021. Songs played include It's Tight Like That, Done Sold My Soul To The Devil (And My Heart's Done Turned To Stone) and Let's Get Loose.

Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February 1935) was a popular blues singer.

Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B….