 17 on "Billboard" Top Country Albums.Spacek was born on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances (née Spilman; December 18, 1917 – November 10, 1981) and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr. (July 3, 1910 – January 7, 2001), a county agricultural agent.Spacek's father was of three quarters Czech (Moravian) and one quarter Sudeten-German ancestry; her paternal grandparents were Mary (Cervenka) and Arnold A. Spacek (who served as mayor of Granger, Texas, in Williamson County).