Smith Brothers

Dallas and Bobby Smith were two brothers from Cookeville, Tennessee, who came to Dayton in 1959 and played around the area for about a year before leaving for Nashville. While in Dayton, they worked as a trio with Don Swaford (who called himself Don Ford) as the Smith Brothers, and played some of the same clubs that Red Allen and Bob and Sonny Osborne were playing at the time. Several years later, the Smith Brothers changed their band name to The Boys From Shiloh.