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The Blue Sky Boys (Paperback)
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The Blue Sky Boys (Paperback)
Series: American Made Music Series
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During the 1940s, country music was rapidly evolving from
traditional songs and string band styles to honky-tonk, western
swing, and bluegrass, via radio, records, and film. The Blue Sky
Boys, brothers Bill (1917-2008) and Earl (1919-1998) Bolick,
resisted the trend, preferring to perform folk and parlor songs,
southern hymns, and new compositions that enhanced their trademark
intimacy and warmth. They were still in their teens when they
became professional musicians to avoid laboring in Depression-era
North Carolina cotton mills. Their instantly recognizable style was
fully formed by 1936, when even their first records captured
soulful harmonies accented with spare guitar and mandolin
accompaniments. They inspired imitators, but none could duplicate
the Blue Sky Boys' emotional appeal or their distinctive Catawba
County accents. Even their last records in the 1970sretained their
unique magical sound decades after other country brother duets had
come and gone. In this absorbing account, Dick Spottswood combines
excerpts from Bill Bolick's numerous spoken interviews and written
accounts of his music, life, and career into a single narrative
that presents much of the story in Bill's own voice. Spottswood
reveals fascinating nuggets about broadcasting, recording, and
surviving in the 1930s world of country music. He describes how the
growing industry both aided and thwarted the Bolick brothers'
career, and how World War II nearly finished it. The book features
a complete, extensively annotated list of Blue Sky Boys songs, an
updated discography that includes surviving unpublished records,
and dozens of vintage photos and sheet music covers.
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