Maddox Brothers and Rose
The Maddox Brothers and Rose were an American country band from California. It existed from the 1930s to the 1950s. The group consisted of four brothers, Fred, Cal, Henry and Don Maddox and their sister Rose.
Band History
Originally the family came from Boaz, Alabama, but moved to California in 1933, after the parents impoverished during the Great Depression. They arrived just before the refugees of Okies fleeing the devastating dust storms in the Dust Bowl, here. Laboriously fed the family by hired themselves out as day laborers on the fruit and vegetable plantations in the San Joaquin Valley.
After they had settled in Modesto, the Maddox three brothers in 1937, sponsored by a local furniture store, as The Alabama Outlaws in a weekday radio show radio station KTRB occurred. Fred was the announcer of the band and played bass, Cal took over the rhythm guitar and the eleven -year-old sister Rose sang, because the sponsor of the program insisted on a singer. The two men also sang.
The Maddox Brothers and Rose were very popular during the 1930s and performed throughout the United States. 1941, the brothers were drafted into World War II, her sister Rose remained unemployed. After the return of the brothers and the two younger brothers joined the band: Don, who played fiddle, and mandolin Cliff, who died in 1949 and was replaced by Henry. In some performances, the band had as a guest musician Bud Duncan on the steel guitar and Jimmy Winkle as another guitar player there. From 1946 to 1951, the group was at 4 Star Records in Hollywood under contract, then at Columbia Records.
The songs of the group ranged from country standards by Hank Williams, Merle Travis and Bob Wills on hillbilly music, folk and gospel to jazz, swing, boogie woogie and precursors of rock'n'roll and rockabilly. The band enjoyed great success, but 1956, Rose and Cal separated from the group and Fred, Don, Henry and his wife made as The Maddox Bros. & Retta on. Rose Maddox began a successful career as a solo artist.
The stage costumes of the Maddox Bros. & Rose are issued both in Buck Owens ' Crystal Palace ' in Bakersfield and in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
Discography
- America's Most Colorful Hillbilly band v.1 ( Arhoolie Records, 1976/1993 )
- America's Most Colorful Hillbilly band v.2 ( Arhoolie, 1995)
- On The Air ( Arhoolie, 1983/1996 )
- Live On The Radio (1996 )
- The Hillbilly Boogie Years ( Rockateer, 1996)
- A Collection of Standard Sacred Songs (King, 1956)
- The Most Colorful Hillbilly Band in America ( Bear Family Records, 1998)