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The Brother Boys: On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys (2-CD)

The Brother Boys' album 'On The Honky Tonk Highway With' received the 'Award of Excellence' from the East Tennessee Historical Society in April 2024.

2-CD (Digisleeve) with 36 page booklet, 51 tracks. Total playing time approx. 157 min.

Bear Family Records® presents the Brother Boys, an Americana act from East Tennessee founded in the late 1980s by Ed Snodderly and Eugene Wolf, still active these days.
The individual style mix of classic country, folk, old-time, bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, gospel, and singer-songwriter pop stubbornly resists any pigeonholing and still sounds ahead of its time.
Described by the band itself as 'New Hillbilly Music,' the Brother Boys carry musical traditions from the last century into the modern day.
The album includes nearly all of the tracks from the 1988 debut album, a host of tracks from the two albums originally released on Sugar Hill, as well as eight unreleased live and radio recordings and selections from the 2021 comeback album.
Compiled and annotated by Appalachian music expert Ted Olson, the double album delivers 51 songs, extensive interviews and numerous photos, some published for the first time.
Marcus Heumann has sensitively remastered the recordings from the original sources.

Whether in concert or on recordings, The Brother Boys - bandleaders Ed Snodderly and Eugene Wolf and their various bandmates - for more than three decades have created music reflecting the influence of several roots music styles while remaining original, true to their own sound.

Deeply rooted in the past yet ahead of their time, The Brother Boys have been overlooked precisely because their music is not easily categorizable. In 1988, Snodderly, Wolf, and some bandmates recorded the group's eponymous debut album for their own label, New Hillbilly Records. The Brother Boys were steeped in the histories of several musical genres, with a repertoire that drew from - but did not imitate - classic country, folk, old-time, bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, gospel, and singer-songwriter pop.

What rendered The Brother Boys' music distinctive was its organic blend of ingredients: Snodderly's and Wolf's authoritative lead vocals and adventurous ‘brother duo’-style harmony singing; older but not overly familiar standards mixed with Snodderly's evocative original songs; as well as deft and daring acoustic and electric guitar playing from Snodderly with skilled instrumental support from a merry band of string and percussion wizards.

‘New Hillbilly Music’ compiles 51 Brother Boys recordings made between 1988 and 2022. Newly remastered, these recordings include virtually all of the band's ultra-rare debut album, numerous Brother Boys classics from two acclaimed Sugar Hill Records albums, 8 previously unreleased live radio and concert performances, several Brother Boys gems originally found on other albums, and key tracks from the recent comeback album ‘More Mule’.

Including rare photographs documenting the history of The Brother Boys alongside a revelatory interview with Snodderly and Wolf, this Bear Family Records® album (the third album in the label's ‘On The Honky Tonk Highway’ series) will take the listener on a rollicking drive up and down the backroads of a rolling, and at times majestically mountainous, Appalachian landscape. Embodying music traditions without being bound by them, these recordings reveal The Brother Boys to be far more than a moldy revivalist act.

With fans of American roots music worldwide presently acknowledging the 100th anniversary of the emergence of the genre once called ‘hillbilly music’ (i.e., country music), ‘New Hillbilly Music’ showcases songs, sounds, and styles that coalesced in the 1920s, flourished throughout the 20th century, and continue to evolve and inspire in the 21st century.

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Interpret: The Brother Boys
Album titlle: On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys (2-CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127176851
weight in Kg 0.115

Brother Boys - On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys (2-CD) CD 1
01	Wanna Wanna Wanna	The Brother Boys
02	Blue From Now On	The Brother Boys
03	The Diamond Stream	The Brother Boys
04	Majestic	The Brother Boys
05	The First Time	The Brother Boys
06	Loose Talk	The Brother Boys
07	(You've Got The Look Of A) Perfect Diamond	The Brother Boys
08	Tango Till They're Sore	The Brother Boys
09	Two Men	The Brother Boys
10	Blue Days, Black Nights	The Brother Boys
11	Town That Never Sleeps	The Brother Boys
12	My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You	The Brother Boys
13	Black Fifty Ford	The Brother Boys
14	Nickel Plate Road	The Brother Boys
15	I'm No Longer In Your Heart	The Brother Boys
16	Joardan Am A Hard Road To Travel	The Brother Boys
17	Small Southern Town	The Brother Boys
18	Pinto Pony	The Brother Boys
19	The Great Atomic Power	The Brother Boys
20	Gonna Row My Boat	The Brother Boys
21	Kiss The Dream Girl	The Brother Boys
22	Alone With You	The Brother Boys
23	Blue Guitar	The Brother Boys
24	Darkest Day	The Brother Boys
25	Satellite Shack	The Brother Boys
26	Come On In (And Make Yourself A Home)	The Brother Boys
27	Crazy Heart	The Brother Boys
28	Heartaches Meet Mr. Blues	The Brother Boys

Brother Boys - On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys (2-CD) CD 2
01	Pearlie Mae	The Brother Boys
02	Band Box	The Brother Boys
03	Moonshine Grin	The Brother Boys
04	What's The Calling For	The Brother Boys
05	Those Two Blue Eyes	The Brother Boys
06	When The Day Is Done	The Brother Boys
07	Tell Me What You Want Me To Do	The Brother Boys
08	Strange	The Brother Boys
09	Let's Shake Loose	The Brother Boys
10	Twist You Up	The Brother Boys
11	I'll Rise When The Rooster Crows	The Brother Boys
12	Then And Only Then	The Brother Boys
13	Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven	The Brother Boys
14	Conversation With Death	The Brother Boys
15	The Ramshackle Shack	The Brother Boys
16	Crazy Arms	The Brother Boys
17	I Just Roll Along	The Brother Boys
18	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Brother Boys
19	Memphis Shakedown	The Brother Boys
20	I Can't Tell You Anymore (What I Need)	The Brother Boys
21	Shade And River Time	The Brother Boys
22	Sweet Riverside	The Brother Boys
23	Goodbye	The Brother Boys

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Customer evaluation for "On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys (2-CD)"

From: Promo Bear On: 26 Nov 2023

Tipp!

"Bear Family macht mit dieser 2CD auf das eindrucksvolle Schaffen der Formation The Brother Boys aufmerksam. Ein begeisterndes Schaffen aus 30 Jahren wird präsentiert. Country, Folk, Oldtime, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, alles dabei auf höchstem Niveau! Tipp!"
Duklas Frisch

From: Dusty Grooves On: 15 Sep 2023

A level that makes them a perfect group to focus on in this excellent series!

Mighty nice work from The Brother Boys – a contemporary group, but one who've got a sound that's very steeped in older folk and country styles – all at a level that makes them a perfect group to focus on in this excellent series! As you might guess from their image on the cover, the group work heavily with acoustic instrumentation – in ways that move forward from postwar bluegrass and hillbilly styles, but which often have some of the sensitivity of the hipper country-inspired singer/songwriter scene – with echoes of Gene Clark or Gram Parsons from time to time! The double-length package features lots of work from the group's earliest years, and later material too!