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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.
"Big" Paul Williams (born Paul Humphrey, 30 March 1935) is an American bluegrass and gospel musician. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He took the surname Williams when he began his musical career in the early 1950s. [ 3 ]
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.
Barry Scott and Second Wind was a bluegrass/bluegrass gospel band [1] based out of the East Tennessee area. They are best known for their debut album In God's Time, [2] which received a 2010 Grammy nomination for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album. [3] The band is also known for its a capella songs. [4]
2012 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year: "Singing as We Rise", Gibson Brothers with Ricky Skaggs; 2017 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year for song "Sacred Memories", Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers with Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White Skaggs; 2018 International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductee
Doyle Wayne Lawson [1] (born April 20, 1944) is an American traditional bluegrass and Southern gospel musician. [2] He is best known as a mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 6-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. [3] Lawson was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
The group was founded in 1935 broadcasting from radio station KFYO in Lubbock, Texas, and took the name in 1936 when they moved to WBAP in Fort Worth. [4] The original members sang together all the way to 1955 when Dad Carter retired, later passing away in 1963, followed by Jim in 1971.
For a brief period in the early 1990s, King was a member of Big Country Bluegrass. [6] Dudley Connell of the Johnson Mountain Boys brought King to the attention of Ken Irwin at Rounder Records. King signed to Rounder Records in 1992 and released his album These Old Pictures in 1993. [5]