LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - For those who may be too young to know the kind of man Mac Davis was, Lubbock pastor and musician Jeff McCreight can help fill in the gaps.

According McCreight, Mac Davis, he felt that "God had given him the gift of songwriting," McCreight said.

"He always had a guitar in reach and we would talk about life and love and the world. He would strum a few chords and out would come lyrics that would totally capture everything that we were feeling about what we were talking about."Davis first made a name for himself as a song writer, helping create magic in the studio with artists including Elvis Presley.