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The group's roots go back to 1971, [3] when Joe and Lily Isaacs began a bluegrass band. Lily's parents are Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors. A few years after they were liberated from a concentration camp in Germany in 1945, her parents moved two year old Lily to New York City, where, in 1958, she got a recording contract with Columbia Records and started performing in night clubs.
He went on to play gospel music with the Northside Quartet and later on achieved some success and a Grammy nomination with the Victory Trio, based out of his hometown, Morristown, Tennessee. Williams started his own band the Victory Trio in 1995 with Banjo player Jerry Keys, Bass player Susie Keys along with Dan Moneyhun and Adam Winstead.
The family was founded by Pop and Mom Lewis (Roy Lewis Sr. and Pauline Lewis, née Holloway), who married in 1925. In 1951 they chose the name The Lewis Family when singing at a Woodmen of the World meeting.
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. [1] The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. [2] Like mainstream country music, it largely developed out of old-time music.
James Elroy King (September 9, 1958 – May 19, 2016) was an American bluegrass music singer, and musician. [1] Tom T. Hall dubbed King the "Bluegrass Storyteller", for his ability to infuse his story songs with emotion and authenticity. [2] [3]
Good Old Country Ballads: Variety of Country Songs: Sacred Songs [vol. 2] 1960 Hymns and Sacred Gospel Songs: Country Songs: 1961 Wanted: For More Fine Country Music: Folk Songs of the Civil War: 1962 Country Singing and Instrumentals: Banjo Special: 12 Songs: Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass: Capitol 1963 Another Day with Reno & Smiley: King Don ...
Bluegrass Gospel Favorites (1967) — with Benny Martin; reissued on CD as Gospel Songs from Cabin Creek; Don Reno & His Tennessee Cut-Ups (1966) Rural Rhythm Presents Don Reno & Bill Harrell with the Tennessee Cut-Ups (1967) A Variety of New Sacred Gospel Songs (1968) The Sensational Twin Banjos of Eddie Adcock and Don Reno (1968)
The Cox Family is an American country/bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. [1] The Cox Family can be heard on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack .