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Artist
Mack Allen Smith
12+ albums
countryHonky Tonk
about
"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. A distant cousin was Shell Smith, guitarist in the duo Narmour and Smith, who made multiple recordings in the late ‘20s and early ‘30s. During World War II Smith lived briefly at Camp McCain, where his father was employed, and after he completed third grade the family moved to Carrolton, where they initially lived in the back of a family-owned grocery. There Mack was exposed to blues "across the railway tracks." He remembers seeing blues legend (and local resident) Mississippi John Hurt performing with his uncle Archie Herbert at the school bus shop in North Carrolton. Mack began performing as a lead singer in 1954 while still in high school with the Future Farmers of America [FFA] band at the J.Z. George High School, which won State FFA championships two years in a row. After graduation, Smith joined the Kenny Minyard band, which performed country and rockabilly, and in late 1956 he formed the Carroll County Rock and Roll Boys, whose name he soon changed to Mack Allen S
top songs
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I'm Not Drunk I'm Just Drinking
16,6602The Skeleton Fight
1,5263Bloody Mary Morning
1,4134Skeleton Fight
9335Memphis You Ain't Nothing But the Best
7816Angel Face Body Full of Sin
7747If Only I Could Get One Hit
6908She Broke My Heart at Walgreens
4079I Hate Trains
36310Sitting in the Sunshine Wishing It Was Moonshine
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