Author: BLUE SKY BOYS
Title: The Blue Sky Boys
Description: Cambridge MA: Rounder Records, 1996. Audio CD. ISBN: 011661005228. Disc in excellent condition. Jewel box like new. Full liner notes. 14 tracks. Recorded at Starday Studios, Nashville, Tenn. In 1976. The Blue Sky Boys: Bill Bolick, vocals, mandolin ; Earl Bolick, vocals, guitar. 'The Blue Sky Boys -- brothers Earl and Bill Bolick -- sprang out of the same era of brother duets that produced the Monroe Brothers, the Delmore Brothers, and the Louvin Brothers, but their sound was entirely their own. Theirs was, in some respects, an earlier sound; it was also a quieter, slower, and more serious sound than that of their contemporaries. While the other brother acts veered toward and experimented with newer styles of bluegrass or electrified country boogie, the Bolicks held stubbornly to their roots; rather, in fact, than joining the trend toward electrification, they retired from recording altogether, performing only occasionally in the years following World War II...'. Near Fine .

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