The Blackwood Brothers

The Blackwood Brothers, consisting of the brothers Roy Blackwood ( born December 24, 1900 in Fentress, Mississippi, † March 21, 1971 ), Doyle Blackwood ( born August 22, 1911 in Ackerman, Mississippi, † 1974) and James Blackwood (* 4 August 1919 in Ackerman, Mississippi, . † 3 February 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee), was an American gospel quartet, which recorded its greatest success in the 1950s and 1960s.

1934, the brothers Roy, Doyle, James Blackwood together founded a band who sang in churches and at regional events. Even then they mixed old hillbilly music, an early form of country music with gospel. Later, the son of Roy Blackwood, RW met, to the group. In 1937 she moved to Koscinsko, Mississippi, and went there on a local radio station, in 1938 they moved to Jackson ( Mississippi) and went there regularly on radio station WJDX on that already sent in the entire southern United States. The popularity of the group grew slowly, and they went to Shreveport, Louisiana. When she at the V.O. Stamps label, signed the most successful marketer of gospel music, she had actually made ​​it to the celebrity, however, the Blackwoods separated during the Second World War.

The breakthrough

1946 found the Blackwood Brothers back together, but without Doyle, who was replaced by Don Smith. Doyle founded after the Blackwood Gospel Quartet. When the rest Blackwood brothers founded their own music publishing company, also managed Doyle's band a start in the music business. In 1950, the previously ascended brother Roy was replaced by Bill Lyles. Shortly thereafter they moved to Memphis ( Tennessee) and signed with RCA. Your first session took place in 1952, in 1954 they were even on television.

On June 30, 1954 died in a plane crash in Alabama RW Blackwood and Bill Lyles. The group was then initially not occur again. With the new singers J. D. Summer and Cecil Blackwood, Roy Blackwood's other son, they took until the mid- 1960s, but then again plates for RCA and Skylite on which almost all had great success. In 1967, she received the first of eight Grammys. James Blackwood won in the 1970s, a total of seven times the Dove Award and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

2005 their cover version of Jimmie Davis ' Live Was There When It Happened was used in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

The best-known title

  • Will not We Be Happy
  • When He Put A Little Sunshine In
  • The Family Of God
  • Songs That Answer Questions
  • Something Beautiful
  • Let's Just Praise The Lord
  • It Is Finished
  • I'm Winging My Way Back Home
  • Jesus Is Lord Of All
  • I Love To Be Alone With Jesus
  • Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
  • The Old Country Church
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