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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.
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.
I Just Want to Thank You Lord" is an American gospel and bluegrass song written by Judy Marshall (born 1951) of the Marshall Family of West Virginia. [1] [2] It was released in 1975 on the Marshall Family's "Come Springtime" album one year after the group came to the public eye after performing with Ralph Stanley at a large bluegrass festival.
"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]
A native of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Bowman sang gospel music from age three until his late-teens. He sang in his family band with his four sisters, playing churches in North Carolina and Virginia. [1] [2] Bowman joined bluegrass band The Lost and Found in 1988 and performed with them for two years. [1]
In 2017, bluegrass artists Wilson Banjo Co. recorded "Ain't No Grave" on their album Spirits in the Hills. Their rootsy acoustic version hit the number one spot of the bluegrass gospel charts multiple times throughout 2018. In 2017, a cover of the song by Hidden Citizens appears in the trailer for the film Aftermath. [5]
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.
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. [1] He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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