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Individually, four of the band's members are state award-winning instrumentalists, and as a group they took 2nd at the 2012 CAM Gospel Sing-Off in Branson. The King Family Band is known for their heart-felt and powerful original music, with Caleb recently labeled a Songwriter to Watch by the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Singing News magazine and other publications highlighted their appearances at the National Quartet Convention from 2006 to 2010. The Watkins Family shared a #1 song “God’s Children” with Randall Franks in the February 2023 Cashbox Magazine Bluegrass Gospel Charts. The song was written by Franks and late Georgia Music Hall of Fame member ...
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.
Over time, Julianne switched to the mandolin, Karen switched to the bass, and Matt switched to the guitar, while Jon also played piano on some of their gospel songs. These early performances were mostly held at local festivals, churches, and cafes. [2] In 2010, the band won the CAM Gospel Sing-Off [3] competition at the Sight & Sound Theatre in ...
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.
"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 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 .
Songs From the Longleaf Pines is an album by American musician Charlie Daniels. Released on March, 22, 2005, the album was Daniels' first album to fully focus on bluegrass gospel music , after previously incorporating elements of the two styles on previously released songs.