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Bill and Earl Bolick of Hickory, North Carolina, are among the finest, if not the finest, examples of the sincerity and dignity of mountain music. --Ranger Doug, Riders in the Sky When I first had a radio at home, the first duets and trios I heard were by the Blue Sky Boys. I always go by the Starday people and say I've got to have one of the Blue Sky Boys' latest albums. I take it home and play it over and over and over. --Jimmy Martin, 1964 I've had the pleasure of reading this wonderful story about Bill and Earl and heartily suggest everyone should read it. --Mac Wiseman Whoever said you sounded like the Monroe Brothers sure didn't know what they were talking about. --RCA Victor's Eli Oberstein to the Blue Sky Boys (Bill and Earl Bolick), 1936 I grew up just outside Atlanta, Georgia, and I could . . . and did listen to the Blue Sky Boys virtually every afternoon on WGST Radio. There was something about their impeccable harmonies, plaintive songs, and straightforward musicianship that spoke to me from an early age. Listening to their recordings today, I can easily conjure up those old memories and warm feelings. They might not have been the biggest, brightest stars on the horizon, but their music and their contributions definitely mattered. They did then and they always will. --Bill Anderson

Bill and Earl Bolick of Hickory, North Carolina, are among the finest, if not the finest, examples of the sincerity and dignity of mountain music.--Ranger Doug, Riders in the Sky I grew up just outside Atlanta, Georgia, and I could . . . and did listen to the Blue Sky Boys virtually every afternoon on WGST Radio. There was something about their impeccable harmonies, plaintive songs, and straightforward musicianship that spoke to me from an early age. Listening to their recordings today, I can easily conjure up those old memories and warm feelings. They might not have been the biggest, brightest stars on the horizon, but their music and their contributions definitely mattered. They did then and they always will.--Bill Anderson I've had the pleasure of reading this wonderful story about Bill and Earl and heartily suggest everyone should read it.--Mac Wiseman This book comes highly recommended for readers interested in the country music industry at a time of transition from its rural roots to the increasingly urban sounds of the post WWII era, as experienced by one of the more popular acts spanning the 1930s and 1940s. Bill Bolick's personal accounts of this period, coupled with the detailed appendices, yields a valuable resource for country music scholarship.--Richard Jones-Bamman, Eastern Connecticut State University, Emeritus ""Journal of Folklore Research"" When I first had a radio at home, the first duets and trios I heard were by the Blue Sky Boys. I always go by the Starday people and say I've got to have one of the Blue Sky Boys' latest albums. I take it home and play it over and over and over.--Jimmy Martin, 1964 Whoever said you sounded like the Monroe Brothers sure didn't know what they were talking about.--RCA Victor's Eli Oberstein to the Blue Sky Boys (Bill and Earl Bolick), 1936

I've had the pleasure of reading this wonderful story about Bill and Earl and heartily suggest everyone should read it. --Mac Wiseman When I first had a radio at home, the first duets and trios I heard were by the Blue Sky Boys. I always go by the Starday people and say I've got to have one of the Blue Sky Boys' latest albums. I take it home and play it over and over and over. --Jimmy Martin, 1964 Whoever said you sounded like the Monroe Brothers sure didn't know what they were talking about. --RCA Victor's Eli Oberstein to the Blue Sky Boys (Bill and Earl Bolick), 1936 Bill and Earl Bolick of Hickory, North Carolina, are among the finest, if not the finest, examples of the sincerity and dignity of mountain music. --Ranger Doug, Riders in the Sky I grew up just outside Atlanta, Georgia, and I could . . . and did listen to the Blue Sky Boys virtually every afternoon on WGST Radio. There was something about their impeccable harmonies, plaintive songs, and straightforward musicianship that spoke to me from an early age. Listening to their recordings today, I can easily conjure up those old memories and warm feelings. They might not have been the biggest, brightest stars on the horizon, but their music and their contributions definitely mattered. They did then and they always will. --Bill Anderson

When I first had a radio at home, the first duets and trios I heard were by the Blue Sky Boys. I always go by the Starday people and say I've got to have one of the Blue Sky Boys' latest albums. I take it home and play it over and over and over. --Jimmy Martin, 1964 I've had the pleasure of reading this wonderful story about Bill and Earl and heartily suggest everyone should read it. --Mac Wiseman Whoever said you sounded like the Monroe Brothers sure didn't know what they were talking about. --RCA Victor's Eli Oberstein to the Blue Sky Boys (Bill and Earl Bolick), 1936 Bill and Earl Bolick of Hickory, North Carolina, are among the finest, if not the finest, examples of the sincerity and dignity of mountain music. --Ranger Doug, Riders in the Sky I grew up just outside Atlanta, Georgia, and I could . . . and did listen to the Blue Sky Boys virtually every afternoon on WGST Radio. There was something about their impeccable harmonies, plaintive songs, and straightforward musicianship that spoke to me from an early age. Listening to their recordings today, I can easily conjure up those old memories and warm feelings. They might not have been the biggest, brightest stars on the horizon, but their music and their contributions definitely mattered. They did then and they always will. --Bill Anderson

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Dick Spottswood, Naples, Florida, is a musicologist, historian, and the producer and online host of The Dick Spottswood Show, aka the Obsolete Music Hour. He is author of numerous books, including Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years, published by University Press of Mississippi.

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