The Maddox Brothers and Rose

The Maddox Brothers and Rose are famously known as America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Band.

Hailing from Alabama, the family of Fred, Cal, Cliff and Don Maddox with their sister Rose hitched to California in 1933 and by 1937 were performing on the radio. Their success ran through to the fifties with their identifiable mix of musical styles with something unusual for those days - a female lead vocal.

Pre-dating rock and roll, their fast, slap bass style of country music was effectively rockabilly, but no-one knew it then ...

See also: Rose Maddox

The Maddox Brothers and Rose

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