The Blue Sky Boys

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Down On the Banks of the Ohio 03:20 Tools
I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail 00:00 Tools
Garden in the Sky 00:00 Tools
Are You From Dixie 00:00 Tools
Sunny Side of Life 00:00 Tools
In The Hills Of Roane County 00:00 Tools
The Banks Of The Ohio 00:00 Tools
Story Of The Knoxville Girl 00:00 Tools
Row Us Over the Tide 00:00 Tools
Turn Your Radio On 00:00 Tools
Where The Soul Never Dies 00:00 Tools
Why Should It End This Way? 00:00 Tools
Brown Eyes 00:00 Tools
Kentucky 00:00 Tools
Are You from Dixie? 00:00 Tools
Katie Dear 00:00 Tools
I'm Troubled, I'm Troubled 00:00 Tools
Take Up Thy Cross 00:00 Tools
Mary of the Wild Moor 00:00 Tools
Didn't They Crucify My Lord 00:00 Tools
Ida Red 00:00 Tools
The Last Mile Of The Way 00:00 Tools
The Dying Boy's Prayer 00:00 Tools
An Old Account Was Settled 00:00 Tools
Come to the Savior 00:00 Tools
Dust On The Bible 00:00 Tools
Whispering Hope 00:00 Tools
There'll Come a Time 00:00 Tools
Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes 00:00 Tools
Midnight on the Stormy Sea 00:00 Tools
If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again 00:00 Tools
Only Let Me Walk With Thee 00:00 Tools
Can't You Hear That Nightbird Crying? 00:00 Tools
No One to Welcome Me Home 00:00 Tools
Alabama 00:00 Tools
When The Stars Begin To Fall 00:00 Tools
When the Ransomed Get Home 00:00 Tools
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? 00:00 Tools
Fair Eyed Ellen 00:00 Tools
The Butcher's Boy 00:00 Tools
No Disappointment In Heaven 00:00 Tools
Behind These Prison Walls of Love 00:00 Tools
Somebody Makes Me Think of You 00:00 Tools
I'm S-A-V-E-D 00:00 Tools
I Believe It 00:00 Tools
This Is Like Heaven To Me 00:00 Tools
The Lightning Express 00:00 Tools
8th Of January 00:00 Tools
Pictures From Life's Other Side 00:00 Tools
Trail To Mexico 00:00 Tools
Katy Hill 00:00 Tools
Old Fashioned Meeting 00:00 Tools
No Home 00:00 Tools
Short Life of Trouble 00:00 Tools
Sweet Evalina 00:00 Tools
You Give Me Your Love 00:00 Tools
They're All Home But One 00:00 Tools
Give Me My Roses Now 00:00 Tools
Just A Strand From A Yellow Curl 00:00 Tools
Mother Went Her Holiness Way 00:00 Tools
Father, Dear Father, Come Home 00:00 Tools
This Evening Light 00:00 Tools
Only One Step More 00:00 Tools
Paper Boy 00:00 Tools
Kneel At The Cross 00:00 Tools
We Buried Her 00:00 Tools
There's Been a Change 00:00 Tools
Sing a Song for the Blind 00:00 Tools
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland 00:00 Tools
The Royal Telephone 00:00 Tools
We Parted By the Riverside 00:00 Tools
The East Bound Train 00:00 Tools
Sweet Allalee 00:00 Tools
Why Not Confess 00:00 Tools
Sold Down the River 00:00 Tools
Speak to Me Little Darling 00:00 Tools
My Last Letter 00:00 Tools
Tramp on the Street 00:00 Tools
The Sweetest Gift 00:00 Tools
Little Bessie 00:00 Tools
Have No Desire to Roam 00:00 Tools
On the Old Plantation 00:00 Tools
Tears on Her Bridal Bouquet 00:00 Tools
Who Wouldn't Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Asleep in the Briny Deep 00:00 Tools
Where The Soul (of Man) Never Dies 00:00 Tools
I'm Going to Write to Heaven (For I Know My Daddy's There) 00:00 Tools
She's Somebody's Darling Once More 00:00 Tools
Don't Say Goodbye if You Love Me 00:00 Tools
Hymns My Mother Sang 00:00 Tools
Green Grow The Lilacs 00:00 Tools
She'll Be There 00:00 Tools
What Does The Deep Sea Say? 00:00 Tools
Last Night While Standing By My Window 00:00 Tools
Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky 00:00 Tools
Let's Not Sleep Again 00:00 Tools
The Sunny Side of Life 00:00 Tools
Someone's Last Day 00:00 Tools
When the Valley Moon Was Low 00:00 Tools
Bring Back My Wandering Boy 00:00 Tools
The Longest Train I Ever Saw 00:00 Tools
The Prisoner's Dream 00:00 Tools
Sweet Allallee 00:00 Tools
The Sweetest Gift, A Mother's Smile 00:00 Tools
In My Little Home in Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Little Mother Of The Hills 00:00 Tools
Lightning Express 00:00 Tools
I Need the Prayers 00:00 Tools
Nine Pound Hammer 00:00 Tools
There Was a Time 00:00 Tools
The Last Letter 00:00 Tools
One Cold Winter's Eve 00:00 Tools
What Have You Done 00:00 Tools
I'm Glad (I'm Glad He's Gone And Left You) 00:00 Tools
Hang Out the Front Door Key 00:00 Tools
You Could Be A Millionaire 00:00 Tools
The Lawson Family Tragedy 00:00 Tools
Don't Trade 00:00 Tools
There's No Other Love for Me 00:00 Tools
Angel Mother 00:00 Tools
I've Found a Friend 00:00 Tools
Heaven Holds All to Me 00:00 Tools
Beautiful 00:00 Tools
On the Banks of the Ohio 00:00 Tools
I Cannot Take You Back Now 00:00 Tools
Uncle Josh Comedy Skit 00:00 Tools
Drop Your Net 00:00 Tools
As Long As I Live 00:00 Tools
Within the Circle 00:00 Tools
When Heaven Comes Down 00:00 Tools
Romans 6:23 00:00 Tools
You've Branded Your Name on My Heart 00:00 Tools
What You Have Done 00:00 Tools
The Chapel in the Hills 00:00 Tools
Don't Take the Light (From My Dark Cell) 00:00 Tools
The House Where We Were Wed 00:00 Tools
Answer to the Prisoner's Dream 00:00 Tools
When I Take My Vacation in Heaven 00:00 Tools
Come To The Saviour 00:00 Tools
Life-Line 00:00 Tools
Unloved and Unclaimed 00:00 Tools
Let Me Be Your Salty Dog 00:00 Tools
After the Ball 00:00 Tools
Have You Seen My Daddy Here 00:00 Tools
I'll Take My Saviour By the Hand 00:00 Tools
Since the Angels Took My Mother Far Away 00:00 Tools
A Picture on the Wall 00:00 Tools
The Convict And The Rose 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart Mountain Rose 00:00 Tools
Lord Be With Us, Amen 00:00 Tools
Shake Hands With Your Mother Today 00:00 Tools
The Answer to the Prisoner's Dream 00:00 Tools
I Have Found the Way 00:00 Tools
Where Our Darling Sleeps Tonight 00:00 Tools
Whithin The Circle 00:00 Tools
God Sent My Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Quit That Ticklin' Me 00:00 Tools
There'll Be No Broken Hearts for Me 00:00 Tools
I Love Her More Now Mother's Old 00:00 Tools
I'm here to get my baby out of jail 00:00 Tools
Worried Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Get Along Home 00:00 Tools
East Bound Train 00:00 Tools
Curley Headed Baby 00:00 Tools
The Cross on the Hill 00:00 Tools
A Picture from Life's Other Side 00:00 Tools
Prisoner's Dream 00:00 Tools
Last Mile Of The Way 00:00 Tools
KnoXVIlle Girl (Story Of The KnoXVIlle Girl) 00:00 Tools
You Give Me Your Life 00:00 Tools
The Story Of The Knoxville Girl 00:00 Tools
The Sweetest Gift (A Mother's Smile) 00:00 Tools
Convict And The Rose 00:00 Tools
House Where We Were Wed 00:00 Tools
Searching For A Soldier's Grave 00:00 Tools
Butcher's Boy 00:00 Tools
Unfinished Rug 00:00 Tools
Royal Telephone 00:00 Tools
Golden Slippers 00:00 Tools
Just Because 00:00 Tools
The Fox 00:00 Tools
The New Golden Rule 00:00 Tools
My Main Trial 00:00 Tools
I'm Saved 00:00 Tools
Will You Miss Me 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Gift, A Mother's Smile 00:00 Tools
In The Hills Of Roanne County 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Blues 00:00 Tools
The Unfinished Rug 00:00 Tools
Heaven Holds All For Me 00:00 Tools
Cross On The Hill 00:00 Tools
Hop Light Ladies 00:00 Tools
God Sent Me My Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Death Is Only a Dream 00:00 Tools
New Golden Rule 00:00 Tools
Picture On The Wall 00:00 Tools
why should it end this way 00:00 Tools
I'll Take My Savior By The Hand 00:00 Tools
In The Pines 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of Life 00:00 Tools
Life's Railway to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
It Was Midnight on the Stormy Deep 00:00 Tools
Comedy 00:00 Tools
I Love Her More, Now Mother's Old 00:00 Tools
Since The Angels Took My Mother Fay Away 00:00 Tools
Midnight Special 00:00 Tools
Cotton Mill Colic 00:00 Tools
The Little Paper Boy 00:00 Tools
Chapel In The Hills 00:00 Tools
Radio Station S-A-V-E-D 00:00 Tools
Have You Seen My Daddy Here? 00:00 Tools
I Have Found A Way 00:00 Tools
The Old Fashioned Meeting 00:00 Tools
Will The Circle Be Unbroken 00:00 Tools
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Down on the Banks of Ohio 00:00 Tools
Just a Little Talk With Jesus 00:00 Tools
Only Let Me Walk with Me 00:00 Tools
The Picture on the Wall 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back to Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Closing Theme 00:00 Tools
Can't You Hear That Night Bird Crying? 00:00 Tools
Fair-Eyed Ellen 00:00 Tools
Life Line 00:00 Tools
Corina, Corina 00:00 Tools
Romans 6:13 00:00 Tools
Where We'll Never Grow Old 00:00 Tools
Greenback Dollar 00:00 Tools
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies 00:00 Tools
Comedy With Uncle Josh 00:00 Tools
S-A-V-E-D 00:00 Tools
Turkey in the Straw 00:00 Tools
Tugboat 00:00 Tools
Advertisement 00:00 Tools
Father Dear Father, Come Home 00:00 Tools
Green Grows The Lilacs 00:00 Tools
Only One More Step Away 00:00 Tools
Yellow Rose of Texas 00:00 Tools
Jack O' Diamonds 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Mother 00:00 Tools
Golden Slippers(Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Fire On the Mountain 00:00 Tools
Tugboat(Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Blues(Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Danced All Night With a Bottle in My Hand 00:00 Tools
Drifting Too Far from the Shore 00:00 Tools
Farther Along 00:00 Tools
The B-I-B-L-E 00:00 Tools
Old Joe Clark 00:00 Tools
Oh Those Tombs 00:00 Tools
What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Had Never Seen a Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Poor Boy 00:00 Tools
You've Branded My Name On Your Heart 00:00 Tools
On the Banks of the Ohio (From Paper Moon) 00:00 Tools
Will You Miss Me? 00:00 Tools
Bury Me Beneath The Willow 00:00 Tools
A Satisfied Mind 00:00 Tools
Darling, Think Of What You've Done 00:00 Tools
The Wednesday Night Waltz 00:00 Tools
Shake Hands With You Mother Today 00:00 Tools
Lorena 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine 00:00 Tools
I Don't Want Your Greenback Dollar 00:00 Tools
Corina Corina 00:00 Tools
Devil's Dream 00:00 Tools
Your Brand Will Remain On My Heart 00:00 Tools
The Lord Be With Us, Amen 00:00 Tools
Black Mountain Blues (Inst.) 00:00 Tools
Two Little Rose Buds 00:00 Tools
Opening Theme And Introduction 00:00 Tools
Get Along Home Cindy 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Listening 00:00 Tools
Golden Slippers (Inst.) 00:00 Tools
Going Round The World, Baby Mine 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road Blues 00:00 Tools
Trail To Mexico...Blue Sky Boys 00:00 Tools
What Does The Deep Sea Say 00:00 Tools
Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die 00:00 Tools
A True Lover of Mine 00:00 Tools
The Promise Of The Lord 00:00 Tools
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The Blue Sky Boys were an American country music duo consisting of the brothers Earl Bolick (November 16, 1919 – April 19, 1998) and Bill Bolick (October 28, 1917 – March 13, 2008), whose careers spanned over forty years. The brothers were born and raised in East Hickory, North Carolina, as the fourth and fifth siblings in a family of six children. Their parents, who were deeply religious and belonging to the "First Church of God", taught them to sing hymns and gospel music. A neighbour taught Bill how to play guitar and banjo while Earl on the other hand learned to play mandolin and guitar. Eventually, they decided to switch instruments and Bill chose the mandolin while Earl concentrated on the guitar. They made their radio debut in 1935 at local radio station WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina as part of the "Crazy Hickory Nuts". Sponsored by the "J. F. Goodson Coffee Company and together with Homer Sherrill of the "Crazy Hickory Nuts" they formed the "Good Coffee Boys" in the late 1935. Six months later, in June 1936, the Bolick brothers moved to Atlanta, Georgia to perform at radio station WGST. Because they were sponsored by the "Crazy Water Crystal", they had to perform using the name "(Crazy) Blue Ridge Hillbillies". In Atlanta, the Bolick brothers went to RCA Records for an audition. At first, Eli Oberstein, the A & R man was reluctant to hear the brothers sing accusing them of copying the Monroe Brothers. Anyhow, he changed his mind when he heard them sing and immediately signed them a recording contract. A discussion arose concerning what they should call themselves. Since they couldn't use the previous name "the Blue Ridge Hillbillies" - it had been taken by Homer Sherrill when the brothers left WGST - they decided to use "Blue Sky Boys" as their name. Their choice of name came from the nickname of western North Carolina: "Land of the Blue Sky". They made their first recordings in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 16, 1936. Their first record "Sunny Side of Life" coupled with "Where the Soul Never Dies" became an instant success. It sold so fast the brothers were dubbed "The New Hillbilly Kings. Between 1937 and 1941 the group recorded about 100 songs for RCA to considerable success on the hillbilly music circuit. Between 1941 and 1946 both brothers served in the military; after their discharge they returned to Atlanta and resumed recording with RCA. Some of their sides featured fiddle playing, from Leslie Keith, Sam Parker, Joe Tyson and Richard Hicks. They enjoyed a number of hits just after the war, but disliked the burgeoning honky tonk style and refused to record it. When RCA asked them to play with an electric guitar, they refused and stopped recording until 1949. Due to personal issues, the Blue Sky Boys retired in 1951. Bill became a postal clerk in his birth state and Earl took a job at Lockheed Aircraft in Atlanta. It was not until 1962, when Starday Records released an LP of their radio recordings, that they decided to reunite and record again. Two LPs of new material followed, one secular (Together Again) and one religious (Precious Moments). They occasionally played live at folk festivals; Capitol Records recorded one of these, at the UCLA Folk Festival, and released it as an album. But by the end of the 1960s they had decided to call it quits again. Once more, in 1975, they were convinced to record again, this time for Rounder Records, and another round of folk and bluegrass circuit touring ensued. Following this Bill moved back to his birthplace and lived in Longview NC and Earl retired to Tucker, Georgia. In the 1990s, Copper Creek Records issued a series of four albums with live radio transcriptions from the 1940s. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.