"Country and rockabilly singer Mack Allen Smith was born in 1938 in Carroll County. He spent his early years in the community of "Little Texas" ten miles outside of Carrolton, where he and his parents lived together with his maternal grandparents. His first experiences singing were at the Hickory Grove Baptist Church, and he was surrounded by music at home. His mother, played guitar and sang, and her brothers played multiple instruments in a string band that Mack often saw perform at his grandparents’ home. Read more on Last.fm