The Maddox Brothers & Rose
By Johnny Whiteside
In 1937, an untrained family of Alabama migrant workers took the first step in what became an artistic campaign that ultimately re-defined country music on the West Coast, popularized the use of gaudy, rhinestone emblazoned stage wear by hillbilly performers, kicked open the door for rockabilly and blazed a trail that allowed female artists the freedom to assert themselves as a commercial force in Nashville. The Maddox Brothers & Rose managed all this through sheer force of will, and if not for fast-talking 17 year old Fred Maddox‘s distaste for working in the cotton fields, it may never have happened at all.
The family had suffered through the very worst of the... Read More
- Genre:
- Country
- City Of Origin:
- Modesto, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1933
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