Minnesota native, singer, songwriter and session musician Dennis Morgan wrote "Smokey Mountain Rain" with Kye Fleming. This performance was recorded during his 2007 induction into the Mid-America Music Hall Of Fame in Medina, Minnesota.

Six time Grammy winner Ronnie Milsap topped both the Country and Adult Contemporary charts while peaking at number twenty-four on the Billboard Top One Hundred in 1981 with "Smokey Mountain Rain". This was the first single from Ronnie's 1980 "Greatest Hits" LP. Wikipedia: "A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smoky Mountains until the age of five, when he was sent to the Governor Morehead School for the blind in Raleigh, North Carolina."