Carl Jackson

Songwriter

Birthday September 18, 1953

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Mississippi

Age 71 years old

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About

Wrote Glenn Campbell's "Letter to Home," Garth Brooks' "Against the Grain," and "Hold Your Horses" by Terri Clark.

Before Fame

He played banjo for the American bluegrass music duo Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys when he was 14.

Trivia

He won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for Spring Training in 1991.

Family Life

His father was in a bluegrass band.

Associated With

He produced the double-CD Mark Twain: Words & Music from 2010 to 2011 for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri.