Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)

Smiley Lewis

American R&B singer and guitarist (1913–1966)

Overton Amos Lemons, known as Smiley Lewis, was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer and guitarist. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like 'The Bells Are…