Robert Metzgar (lead vocals) Stephen Hill, Woody Wright, and Doug Clements (background vocals)
Influences
Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Rogers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Grandpa Jones, The Osbourne Brothers, Will Rogers, Ernest Tubb
Sounds Like
The Smokey River Boys, whose career was profiled in the movie, O Brother, starring George Clooney have their own sound. While the sound has been copied by many, it has never been duplicated by anyone. The group celebrated 40 years with MCA Universal in the year of 2003 and were elected into the Legends Hall Of Fame
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The Smokey River Boys have been on MCA Universal for three generations. Their careers have spanned three multi-platinum selling bluegrass albums that have as many award winning songs as they have sales to back up those songs. The Original Smokey River Boys were Lefty Jenkins, Luke Rogers, Sonny Wyatt and Bill Jackson. Todays band of superstar bluegrass heroes are Robert Metzgar, Stephen Hill, Woody Wright, and Doug Clements. They are the third generation to record for the famous label that was home to Bill Monroe for so many years and follow Mr. Monroe as the senior bluegrass group on the label. They were elected to the Legends Hall Of Fame in 2003 and currently have two albums in the Top-40 Billboard Bluegrass charts.
The best selling albums that the Smokey River Boys are remembered by are Dueling Banjos, and Best Of Banjo which featured the boys along with Grandpa Jones, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Osborne Brothers. Todays new album entitled, O Brother is currently in the Top-40 (Soundscan verified) Billboard Bluegrass charts and has been every week since its release and continues to climb the Billboard Bluegrass charts as their other material has through the years.
The new single, O Brother was the most requested new single in all radio formats according to Ken Berryhill of Vanderbilt University Radio for the debut week of September 10th. The new O Brother album was the best selling new bluegrass album for the Nashville Arbitron rated market for the week of the International Bluegrass Associations annual convention in October of 2004.
The Smokey River Boys music has been endorsed by Hairl Hensley of WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee which is the home of the Grand Ole Opry. The Smokey River Boys are proud sponsors of the Grand Ole Opry warm up show on WSM radio each Friday night prior to the Grand Ole Opry broadcast. They are sponsored nationally by Vanilla Coke, Wal-Mart Stores, GMC trucks, Gibson Guitars, and MCA Universal Special Products. Simply log on to Walt Disney Music is the home of T. Bone Burnett the producer of the O Brother Where Art Thou, sound track and the multimillion selling soundtrack has been the ..1 Bluegrass album in the Billboard charts every week for the past 2 years. Over 12.5 million albums have been sold to date of the O Brother soundtrack, the O Brother SRB Album and the Down From The Mountain album. For further information on the Smokey River Boys grand career at MCA Universal, just contact them at the following:
Robert Metzgar Manager
THE SMOKEY RIVER BOYS . MCA UNIVERSAL
1214 16th Avenue South . Nashville, TN 37212-2902
800-767-4984 (toll free) . 615-321-0600 (wk) . 615-338-4497 (fax)
MCA UNIVERSAL PRODUCT: Dueling Banjos Bar Code 6-01215-36842 . Best Of Banjo Bar Code 7-31458-49742-4 O Brother Album Bar Code 0-44006-40902-3 Distributed by MCA Universal worldwide . A division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404-USA Distributed by Universal Music Groups, Universal Video Distribution Corporation . Hollywood, California Contact E-mail address www.umusic.com
DISNEY MUSIC PUBLISHING: All songs and arrangements are copyrighted exclusively by the Walt Disney Music Co. (ASCAP) and Disney Music Publishing (BMI) worldwide. See www.ascap.com or www.bmi.com for further information.
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A Total Instrumental Album By Stan Williams, Former Outlaws Band Guitarist, Steve Grisham, and Ghost Riders Band Drummer, Pug Baker.
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Hey Smokey River Boys. How are you,My Friends? Just stopped in to wish You, a very wonderful week. May it be filled with, Great Music & Good Times. Take care,My Friends! Luv Goldie..xo ..
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Easter Morn:
Easter morn with lilies fair Fills the church with perfumes rare, As their clouds of incense rise, Sweetest offerings to the skies. Stately lilies pure and white Flooding darkness with their light, Bloom and sorrow drifts away, On this holy hallow'd day. Easter Lilies bending low In the golden afterglow, Bear a message from the sod To the heavenly towers of God.
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Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you, to your destiny.
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Thanksgiving:
The year has turned its circle, the seasons come and go. The harvest is all gathered in; And chilly north winds blow. Orchards have showed their treasures, the fields, their yellow grain. So open wide the doorway thanksgiving comes again.
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Seek to find, the best,in the worst. To discover the great, in the small. To see the beauty, in the plain,, and to detect the elegant, in the simple.
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To Friends:
To friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost The gracious old, the lovely young, to May The fair, December the beloved, These from my blue horizon and green isles, These from this pinnacle of distances I, The unforgetful, dedicate.
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Music:
I can feel the music, it reaches out to me, freeing itself from measured lines; sometimes it vibrates in -depth chords, with a mysterious pulse of its time. Music, music, there should always be music, without it life has no rhythm for design; it whistles on the wind, it waits to come in, and it beats with your heart and with mine.
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