Since 1988, whether in concert or on recordings, The Brother Boys - bandleaders Ed Snodderly and Eugene Wolf and their various bandmates - have created music reflecting the influence of several roots music styles while remaining original, true to their own sound.   

The Brother Boys are steeped in the histories of several musical genres, with a repertoire that draws from - but does not imitate - classic country, folk, old-time, bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, gospel, and singer-songwriter pop. 

What renders The Brother Boys' music distinctive is 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.  

The Brother Boys have appeared on TNN’s American Music Shop, E-Town, Mountain Stage, SXSW, and Ernest Tubb’s Record Shop Midnight Jamboree.

"The Brother Boys sound like hillbillies whose moonshine is spiked with acid."

                                                                            - People Magazine 

“The Brother Boys play New Hillbilly music, a smart amalgam of the tongue-and-groove vocal harmony of the Wilburn Brothers, the lonesome quality of bluegrass, and the hopelessness of the Delta Blues.”

                                               - Alana Nash - Entertainment Weekly

"The Brother Boys have crafted a wonderfully consistent album.  Ancient and modern instruments; old and new songs cross-blend behind the best of all hillbilly traditions: close harmony.”

                                                                 - Colin Escott

 

                                                           

                                                      

 

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ON THE HONKY TONK HIGHWAY
NEW HILLBILLY MUSIC

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On The Honky Tonk Highway: New Hillbilly Music
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On The Honky Tonk Highway: New Hillbilly Music

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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

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.

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Track Listing

1. Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home)

2. I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)

3. Why I'm Walking

4. I Can't Tell You Anymore What I Need

5. I Just Want To Drink In Here

6. Crazy Arms

7. I Just Roll Along

8. In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain

9. Things in Life

10. Memphis Shakedown

11. Slow My Girl Around

12. Shade And River Time

13. Sweet Riverside

 

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