Singer/songwriter from the California folkie scene of late 60s and early 70s with some hippie-psych and jazzy blends.
In the fall of 1966,with Penny Nichols toured Vietnam as a duo called Greasy Mountain Butterballs.
In 1970 Smith did record two albums for Richie Haven's Stormy Forest Label("Some songs i've saved" in 1970 and "Kathy Smith 2" in 1971).Kathy Smith also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival where she was very well received before disappearing from the music scene.
On both Kathy Smith's albums you can hear play and sing artists such as Pamela Polland, Colin Walcott, Tony Levine, Jan Hammer, Artie Traum, Jeremy Steig and Jim Fielder.

Kathy Smith - vocals, guitar.
Don Sarlin, Monte Dunn - lead guitar.
Artie Traum - lead guitar, banjo.
Collin Walcott - sitar, tabla.
Warren Bernhardt - piano, organ.
Jeremy Steig - flute.
Eric Weisburg - fiddle.
Chuck Rainey, Jin Fielder - bass.
Bill LaVorna - drums.
Stormy Forest Freaks - chorus, handclaps.

Topanga.
What Nancy knows.
A vision of two states.
End of the world.
Same old lady.
Blackbird and the pearl.
Russell : Gemini II.
If I could touch you.
Circles of love.