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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.
Titles like "Bye and Bye We're Going to See the King" and "I Wouldn't Mind Dying (If Dying Was All)" are taken from the refrain. The title of the 1929 version by Washington Phillips, "A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter", whose verses differ markedly from other versions, was presumably chosen to indicate that he intended it as a companion song to his "Mother's Last Word to Her Son" of 1927.
Jim "Moose" Brown - Hammond B-3 organ, piano Mark Fain - upright bass Paul Franklin - steel guitar; Cody Kilby - acoustic guitar, soloist; Brent King - percussion; Andy Leftwich - fiddle
Samuel Fisher, who plays the guitar, mandolin, and banjo. The last member is Joseph Cockman who plays the guitar, bass and will also be the lead in many songs. The Cockman Family has developed a distinct bluegrass gospel style that has gained audiences throughout the Southeast. Their arrangements of old gospel songs have been very popular.
A Song for Everyone (1966) 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 ...
Trials, Troubles, Tribulations is a popular American bluegrass gospel song written by Estil C. Ball. It was originally entitled simply "Tribulations" and was recorded in 1959. The song is the most famous composition written by E.C. Ball. The lyrics were based, as Ball told Alan Lomax in 1959, "on the last book in the Bible: Revelations [sic ...
A documentary on his life, King of Bluegrass: The Life and Times of Jimmy Martin, was released in 2003. Martin is also featured in the documentary film High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music . Martin's hobby was raccoon hunting with dogs; he featured his hunting dogs on the covers of several LP albums and wrote songs celebrating their prowess.
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 ...