The Blackwood Brothers is an American southern gospel quartet. Pioneers of … Read Full Bio ↴The Blackwood Brothers is an American southern gospel quartet. Pioneers of the Christian music industry, they are 8-time GRAMMY award winners in addition to winning 27 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and 5 All-American Music Awards. They are also members of the Gospel, Southern Gospel, and Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet was formed in 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression when preacher Roy Blackwood (1900–71) moved his family back home to Choctaw County, Mississippi. His brothers, Doyle Blackwood (1911–74) and 15-year-old James Blackwood (1919–2002), already had some experience singing with Vardaman Ray and Gene Catledge. After adding Roy's 13-year-old son, R.W. Blackwood (1921–54), to sing baritone, the brothers began to travel and sing locally. By 1940, they were affiliated with Stamps-Baxter to sell songbooks and were appearing on 50,000-watt radio station KMA (AM) in Shenandoah, Iowa. Doyle left in 1942 and was replaced by Don Smith. After Doyle left, The Quartet relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 1950. The move proved to be successful for the group as they began to appear on television station WMCT in coming years. After the move, Roy left and was replaced with Calvin Newton, who was replaced with Cat Freeman, and after Freeman left, Alden Toney was hired to sing tenor. In 1951, Alden Toney and Don Smith left and were replaced with Dan Huskey and Bill Lyles. In 1952, Dan Huskey left and was replaced by Bill Shaw. On June 14, 1954, the Blackwood Brothers lineup of Bill Shaw (tenor), James Blackwood (lead), R.W. Blackwood (baritone), Bill Lyles (bass), and Jackie Marshall (piano), won the Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts competition on national television with their rendition of "Have You Talked To The Man Upstairs?" The win propelled them into the national spotlight and beyond just the Southern United States and the group signed with RCA Victor.
After winning on Talent Scouts, the group began flying to shows with their own private plane due to the demand of their performances. However, on June 30, 1954, the group was scheduled to perform with the Statesmen Quartet in Clanton, Alabama during a town festival. Prior to the start of their show; R.W. Blackwood, Bill Lyles, and Johnny Ogburn, a local friend of the Blackwood Brothers decided to take a quick ride on the plane around dusk. Tenor singer Bill Shaw recalled the event saying; "It was about dusk, and they were going take off, and it was unlit, and the plan went out its usual way, but then seemed like it got caught in the upward position and could not pull out, and then just fell to the ground and killed everyone on board." Members of the Statesmen Quartet also witnessed it and provided aid to the survivors, taking them back to Memphis that night. After a funeral that was attended by thousands in Memphis, including a young Elvis Presley, the survivors, James Blackwood, Bill Shaw, and Jackie Marshall decided to press on. R.W.'s younger brother Cecil Blackwood (1934–2000) took over as baritone and former Sunshine Boys Quartet J. D. Sumner replaced Bill Lyles at the bass position. According to Ken Berryhill, their producer, it was at about this point in their career that they first crossed paths with the young Elvis Presley, with whom they became friends. In the following years, the group was the first to customize a bus to make travel spacious and comfortable for entertainers, thereby inventing the customized "Tour Bus", something which many years later, when already the most famous singer in the planet, Presley saw and went straight out and had one made for him.
After the crash, The group went to work forming the Gospel Music Association and also was partially responsible for the creation of the National Quartet Convention. Sumner also contributed to the group as a songwriter, sometimes writing all the songs for a music album. The Blackwood Brothers were also setting new standards in the studio. Their RCA Victor recordings from this time period are now considered prized collectors' items. The lineup with Bill Shaw, James, Cecil, and J.D. Sumner (who for many years was unchallenged as the Guinness World Record holder for having the lowest human voice on record, and was only superseded after Guinness started accepting vocal fry as part of the vocal range) is considered the classic version of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, with Jackie Marshall or Wally Varner on piano. A replica of the bus can be seen at the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
The Blackwood Brothers formed a partnership with the Statesmen Quartet to tour as a team in the 1950s, and they were the dominant act on the southern gospel circuit during this time. This dominance lasted for about a decade until the rise of gospel television shows in the late 1960s began to give competing groups wider exposure. The "Stateswood" team also started independent record label Skylite Records. At one time, the Skyline roster included The Blackwood Brothers, J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, Jake Hess and the Imperials, the Speer Family, the Florida Boys, the Couriers Quartet, the Kingsmen Quartet, the Calvarymen Quartet, the Calvary Quartet, the Kingdom Heirs Quartet, the Statesmen Quartet, the Prophets Quartet, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Jordanaires, the Southerners Quartet, and the Rebels Quartet.
In 1966, the Blackwoods teamed up with Porter Wagoner to record a country influenced gospel album called Grand Old Gospel. It won a Grammy Award for Best Sacred recording and was the first of 3 albums the Blackwoods recorded with Wagoner. 1967's More Grand Old Gospel won a Grammy for best Gospel album, along with 1969's In Gospel Country. Wagoner performed with the Blackwoods for years and were guests at the Ryman Auditorium multiple times. In 1969, James Blackwood's oldest son, James "Jimmy" Blackwood, Jr., took over as the main lead singer for the group. Jimmy had been a member of the Junior Blackwood Brothers and the Stamps Quartet. They won another Grammy in 1972 for their project L-O-V-E on the RCA Camden label and then again in 1973 for Release Me From My Sin. The group had 5-7 members at any given time with James Sr. and James JR. sharing the lead, Bill Shaw and Cecil Blackwood on Tenor and Baritone, respectively, and John Hall and Conley "London" Parris taking over bass. The 1970s and 1980s lineup with Pat Hoffmaster, Jimmy Blackwood, Cecil Blackwood, Ken Turner and Tommy Fairchild had the Blackwood Brothers' biggest hit with "Learning To Lean". 1979 saw another Grammy win for Lift Up the Name of Jesus.
James Blackwood left the group in 1980 to form The Master's V Quartet along with former Blackwood Member JD Sumner and former Statesmen singers Jake Hess, Rosie Rozell, and Hovie Lister. The group continued and as did their commercial success. 1980's We Come To Worship won a Grammy for best traditional gospel recording. It was produced by Cecil Blackwood's son, Mark Blackwood, and incorporated more contemporary sounds to the traditional Blackwood Quartet. 1982's Im Following You won the group's 8th and final Grammy for best traditional gospel recording. Much like We Come To Worship, it blended elements of newer praise with the traditional southern gospel sound.
Cecil Blackwood died in November 2000, and James Blackwood in effect retired the Blackwood Brothers name. Mark Blackwood continued the heritage in grand style with "Mark Blackwood and the Blackwood Gospel Quartet," eventually hiring tenor Wayne Little and bass singer Randy Byrd. In late 2004, Jimmy Blackwood joined Mark, and together they resurrected the Blackwood Brothers. However, Mark left in 2005, reforming his Blackwood Gospel Quartet, and was replaced with Brad White. Jimmy Blackwood, Wayne Little, Brad White, and Randy Byrd appeared on the Gaither Homecoming video Rock of Ages (2008). Soon after, White left and was replaced with Jimmy's youngest brother, Billy. In 2012, Byrd was replaced with Butch Owens. Also in 2012, Jimmy Blackwood retired and was replaced by Michael Helwig.
Bill Shaw passed away September 7, 2018.
The Blackwood Brothers have recorded over 200 albums and sold over 50 million records. They have won nine Grammy Awards, four Dove Awards, and have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Hall Of Fame, the Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) Museum and Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Cecil Blackwood died in November 2000, and James Blackwood in effect retired the Blackwood Brothers name. Mark Blackwood then formed "Mark Blackwood and the Blackwood Gospel Quartet," eventually hiring tenor Wayne Little and bass singer Randy Byrd. In late 2004, Jimmy Blackwood joined Mark, and together they resurrected the Blackwood Brothers.
In the latter part of his life and career, James Blackwood formed The James Blackwood Quartet along with Ken Turner at Bass, Larry Ford at Tenor, and Jimmy Blackwood at Baritone. The group performed a short while before folding in the late 1990's. Then, Ron Blackwood, the oldest son of R.W. Blackwood, who was one of the original members of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and who was killed in the 1954 plane crash, formed The Blackwood Quartet. He eventually merged with Mark Blackwood to form the current Quartet. This act tours with more frequency than the actual Blackwood Brothers of today.
The Blackwood Brothers appeal has reached across the musical spectrum for generations. Elvis Presley named the Blackwood Brothers as his favorite gospel quartet growing up and knew the Blackwood Family personally, often inviting them to his Graceland home just to talk and fellowship even at the height of his popularity. He shared a stage with them in 1955 while on tour for the first time in Texas and refused to sing rock and roll out of respect for and a desire to sing with his idols. Johnny Cash formed a strong relationship with the Blackwoods and the two acts performed with each other numerous times. Their song "I Was There When It Happened" can be heard singing on the radio towards the beginning of the movie Walk the Line (2005)—when Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix) was in Memphis. In the film and according to Cash's autobiography, while auditioning to earn a spot on the Sun Records label in his early career, Cash performed gospel songs that the Blackwoods sang with regularity. They also appeared on The Johnny Cash Show and performed in 1971. At the end of the 2008 biopic film W., the Blackwood's rendition of "Winging My Way Back Home" was played. Currently, The Blackwood Quartet has been a frequent act with Willie Nelson and his Farmaid musical festival, usually closing out the festival with a rendition of "Ill Fly Away." Ron Blackwood recently negotiated with Willie Nelson to record a Gospel Album with Mark Blackwood & The Blackwood Quartet to be released on Sony Records in late 2017. Ron has been in serious discussions with regards to recording an album with the Blackwood Quartet & Bob Dylan. Dylan spoke about the record at The Grammy Awards when he was named MusiCares Artist of the year in 2015 and in his speech expressed his desire to make another gospel album and the desire to sing the traditional gospel song "Stand By Me" on that album.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet was formed in 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression when preacher Roy Blackwood (1900–71) moved his family back home to Choctaw County, Mississippi. His brothers, Doyle Blackwood (1911–74) and 15-year-old James Blackwood (1919–2002), already had some experience singing with Vardaman Ray and Gene Catledge. After adding Roy's 13-year-old son, R.W. Blackwood (1921–54), to sing baritone, the brothers began to travel and sing locally. By 1940, they were affiliated with Stamps-Baxter to sell songbooks and were appearing on 50,000-watt radio station KMA (AM) in Shenandoah, Iowa. Doyle left in 1942 and was replaced by Don Smith. After Doyle left, The Quartet relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 1950. The move proved to be successful for the group as they began to appear on television station WMCT in coming years. After the move, Roy left and was replaced with Calvin Newton, who was replaced with Cat Freeman, and after Freeman left, Alden Toney was hired to sing tenor. In 1951, Alden Toney and Don Smith left and were replaced with Dan Huskey and Bill Lyles. In 1952, Dan Huskey left and was replaced by Bill Shaw. On June 14, 1954, the Blackwood Brothers lineup of Bill Shaw (tenor), James Blackwood (lead), R.W. Blackwood (baritone), Bill Lyles (bass), and Jackie Marshall (piano), won the Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts competition on national television with their rendition of "Have You Talked To The Man Upstairs?" The win propelled them into the national spotlight and beyond just the Southern United States and the group signed with RCA Victor.
After winning on Talent Scouts, the group began flying to shows with their own private plane due to the demand of their performances. However, on June 30, 1954, the group was scheduled to perform with the Statesmen Quartet in Clanton, Alabama during a town festival. Prior to the start of their show; R.W. Blackwood, Bill Lyles, and Johnny Ogburn, a local friend of the Blackwood Brothers decided to take a quick ride on the plane around dusk. Tenor singer Bill Shaw recalled the event saying; "It was about dusk, and they were going take off, and it was unlit, and the plan went out its usual way, but then seemed like it got caught in the upward position and could not pull out, and then just fell to the ground and killed everyone on board." Members of the Statesmen Quartet also witnessed it and provided aid to the survivors, taking them back to Memphis that night. After a funeral that was attended by thousands in Memphis, including a young Elvis Presley, the survivors, James Blackwood, Bill Shaw, and Jackie Marshall decided to press on. R.W.'s younger brother Cecil Blackwood (1934–2000) took over as baritone and former Sunshine Boys Quartet J. D. Sumner replaced Bill Lyles at the bass position. According to Ken Berryhill, their producer, it was at about this point in their career that they first crossed paths with the young Elvis Presley, with whom they became friends. In the following years, the group was the first to customize a bus to make travel spacious and comfortable for entertainers, thereby inventing the customized "Tour Bus", something which many years later, when already the most famous singer in the planet, Presley saw and went straight out and had one made for him.
After the crash, The group went to work forming the Gospel Music Association and also was partially responsible for the creation of the National Quartet Convention. Sumner also contributed to the group as a songwriter, sometimes writing all the songs for a music album. The Blackwood Brothers were also setting new standards in the studio. Their RCA Victor recordings from this time period are now considered prized collectors' items. The lineup with Bill Shaw, James, Cecil, and J.D. Sumner (who for many years was unchallenged as the Guinness World Record holder for having the lowest human voice on record, and was only superseded after Guinness started accepting vocal fry as part of the vocal range) is considered the classic version of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, with Jackie Marshall or Wally Varner on piano. A replica of the bus can be seen at the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
The Blackwood Brothers formed a partnership with the Statesmen Quartet to tour as a team in the 1950s, and they were the dominant act on the southern gospel circuit during this time. This dominance lasted for about a decade until the rise of gospel television shows in the late 1960s began to give competing groups wider exposure. The "Stateswood" team also started independent record label Skylite Records. At one time, the Skyline roster included The Blackwood Brothers, J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, Jake Hess and the Imperials, the Speer Family, the Florida Boys, the Couriers Quartet, the Kingsmen Quartet, the Calvarymen Quartet, the Calvary Quartet, the Kingdom Heirs Quartet, the Statesmen Quartet, the Prophets Quartet, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Jordanaires, the Southerners Quartet, and the Rebels Quartet.
In 1966, the Blackwoods teamed up with Porter Wagoner to record a country influenced gospel album called Grand Old Gospel. It won a Grammy Award for Best Sacred recording and was the first of 3 albums the Blackwoods recorded with Wagoner. 1967's More Grand Old Gospel won a Grammy for best Gospel album, along with 1969's In Gospel Country. Wagoner performed with the Blackwoods for years and were guests at the Ryman Auditorium multiple times. In 1969, James Blackwood's oldest son, James "Jimmy" Blackwood, Jr., took over as the main lead singer for the group. Jimmy had been a member of the Junior Blackwood Brothers and the Stamps Quartet. They won another Grammy in 1972 for their project L-O-V-E on the RCA Camden label and then again in 1973 for Release Me From My Sin. The group had 5-7 members at any given time with James Sr. and James JR. sharing the lead, Bill Shaw and Cecil Blackwood on Tenor and Baritone, respectively, and John Hall and Conley "London" Parris taking over bass. The 1970s and 1980s lineup with Pat Hoffmaster, Jimmy Blackwood, Cecil Blackwood, Ken Turner and Tommy Fairchild had the Blackwood Brothers' biggest hit with "Learning To Lean". 1979 saw another Grammy win for Lift Up the Name of Jesus.
James Blackwood left the group in 1980 to form The Master's V Quartet along with former Blackwood Member JD Sumner and former Statesmen singers Jake Hess, Rosie Rozell, and Hovie Lister. The group continued and as did their commercial success. 1980's We Come To Worship won a Grammy for best traditional gospel recording. It was produced by Cecil Blackwood's son, Mark Blackwood, and incorporated more contemporary sounds to the traditional Blackwood Quartet. 1982's Im Following You won the group's 8th and final Grammy for best traditional gospel recording. Much like We Come To Worship, it blended elements of newer praise with the traditional southern gospel sound.
Cecil Blackwood died in November 2000, and James Blackwood in effect retired the Blackwood Brothers name. Mark Blackwood continued the heritage in grand style with "Mark Blackwood and the Blackwood Gospel Quartet," eventually hiring tenor Wayne Little and bass singer Randy Byrd. In late 2004, Jimmy Blackwood joined Mark, and together they resurrected the Blackwood Brothers. However, Mark left in 2005, reforming his Blackwood Gospel Quartet, and was replaced with Brad White. Jimmy Blackwood, Wayne Little, Brad White, and Randy Byrd appeared on the Gaither Homecoming video Rock of Ages (2008). Soon after, White left and was replaced with Jimmy's youngest brother, Billy. In 2012, Byrd was replaced with Butch Owens. Also in 2012, Jimmy Blackwood retired and was replaced by Michael Helwig.
Bill Shaw passed away September 7, 2018.
The Blackwood Brothers have recorded over 200 albums and sold over 50 million records. They have won nine Grammy Awards, four Dove Awards, and have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Association (GMA) Hall Of Fame, the Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) Museum and Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Cecil Blackwood died in November 2000, and James Blackwood in effect retired the Blackwood Brothers name. Mark Blackwood then formed "Mark Blackwood and the Blackwood Gospel Quartet," eventually hiring tenor Wayne Little and bass singer Randy Byrd. In late 2004, Jimmy Blackwood joined Mark, and together they resurrected the Blackwood Brothers.
In the latter part of his life and career, James Blackwood formed The James Blackwood Quartet along with Ken Turner at Bass, Larry Ford at Tenor, and Jimmy Blackwood at Baritone. The group performed a short while before folding in the late 1990's. Then, Ron Blackwood, the oldest son of R.W. Blackwood, who was one of the original members of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and who was killed in the 1954 plane crash, formed The Blackwood Quartet. He eventually merged with Mark Blackwood to form the current Quartet. This act tours with more frequency than the actual Blackwood Brothers of today.
The Blackwood Brothers appeal has reached across the musical spectrum for generations. Elvis Presley named the Blackwood Brothers as his favorite gospel quartet growing up and knew the Blackwood Family personally, often inviting them to his Graceland home just to talk and fellowship even at the height of his popularity. He shared a stage with them in 1955 while on tour for the first time in Texas and refused to sing rock and roll out of respect for and a desire to sing with his idols. Johnny Cash formed a strong relationship with the Blackwoods and the two acts performed with each other numerous times. Their song "I Was There When It Happened" can be heard singing on the radio towards the beginning of the movie Walk the Line (2005)—when Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix) was in Memphis. In the film and according to Cash's autobiography, while auditioning to earn a spot on the Sun Records label in his early career, Cash performed gospel songs that the Blackwoods sang with regularity. They also appeared on The Johnny Cash Show and performed in 1971. At the end of the 2008 biopic film W., the Blackwood's rendition of "Winging My Way Back Home" was played. Currently, The Blackwood Quartet has been a frequent act with Willie Nelson and his Farmaid musical festival, usually closing out the festival with a rendition of "Ill Fly Away." Ron Blackwood recently negotiated with Willie Nelson to record a Gospel Album with Mark Blackwood & The Blackwood Quartet to be released on Sony Records in late 2017. Ron has been in serious discussions with regards to recording an album with the Blackwood Quartet & Bob Dylan. Dylan spoke about the record at The Grammy Awards when he was named MusiCares Artist of the year in 2015 and in his speech expressed his desire to make another gospel album and the desire to sing the traditional gospel song "Stand By Me" on that album.
I'll Fly Away
The Blackwood Brothers Lyrics
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Some glad morning when this life is over, I'll fly away
To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars have flown, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away
To a land where joy will never end, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars have flown, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away
To a land where joy will never end, I'll fly away
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
The lyrics of “I’ll Fly Away” by The Blackwood Brothers portray the belief of Christians that heaven is a place where they will find eternal happiness and peace. Throughout the song, the notion of escaping worldly sorrows and pains is repeated, depicting the idea of death as a new beginning towards a better life. The phrase “I’ll fly away” is repeated many times, representing the ultimate hope of escaping this world and entering a new realm. The reference to “God’s celestial shore” suggests the concept of heaven being a place where there are no troubles or sufferings that one must face upon the earth.
Furthermore, the lyrics also symbolize freedom from a life of sin, using the metaphor of a bird that no longer has “prison bars” to escape the burdens of life. The singer acknowledges that in death, they will be released from the struggles and tribulations of the world, and they will finally be able to spread their wings and fly away. The idea that death is just a temporary part of life and that there is a better place beyond it is a reoccurring theme of the song. The lyrics offer the listeners a sense of comfort and hope by reinforcing the belief that, ultimately, one will be set free from the hardships of life to a place of eternal peace.
Overall, the lyrics of “I’ll Fly Away” highlight the hope for an afterlife that is free from the difficulties faced in this life. Through the references made to heaven and the use of bird imagery, the song provides a deep sense of longing for a better life beyond the current one on earth.
Line by Line Meaning
Some glad morning when this life is over, I'll fly away
One day when this life comes to an end, I will fly away with joy.
To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away
I will fly away to my heavenly home on God's celestial shore.
I'll fly away, oh, glory, I'll fly away
I will fly away with great joy and praise.
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
When I die, I will rejoice and fly away to my heavenly home.
When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly away
When the hardships of life are over, I will fly away.
Like a bird from prison bars have flown, I'll fly away
I will break free from the bonds of this world like a bird escaping from a prison.
Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away
After enduring a few more tiring days, I will ascend to heaven.
To a land where joy will never end, I'll fly away
I will fly away to a land of endless joy and happiness.
When I'll die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away
When I die, I will rejoice and fly away to my heavenly home.
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PAULO BASS
In addition to the powerful voice of Ken Turner that I so much appreciate, I was even more fascinated by the good humor and artistic talent he has. Fantastic!!! ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫
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Matthew Warwick
Wow, what a multi-talent Ken Turner is!
Alice Gregerson
I got to meet the Blackwood Brothers when they would come into town in 1979-1981. Their pianist Tommy Fairchild, was the brother to my pastor's wife Judith Miller. I loved the way Pat Hofmaster sang and if you saw them in concert, Ken Turner would keep everyone in stitches. My mom passed away last October (2019) and her favorite album of the Blackwood Brother's was Learning to Lean. I miss those times when I would listen to them growing up and I am glad these video's are posted here. Thank you!
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Gosto da voz do ken turne pra mim ele é o melhor de todos tempos 03/12/2021
Timothy Evans
The BlackWood brothers had a very powerful impression on Elvis Presley from early childhood when JD Sumner was with them and they later had a very close connection with him. Elvis requested they perform at his mothers funeral. Once the group recalled that day and said that was the saddest day of Elvis's life. At the end of the funeral Elvis walked over to his mothers casket and said in crying MOTHER I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I'D GO BACK TO DIIGGING DITCHES JUST TO HAVE YOU BACK.
Jeanette Turner
Does anyone know where John Cox is now? I loved hearing him sing.
Jeanette Turner
@HousewifeUntilHeaven oh, you are an answer to prayer. I just bought the album of the Blackwood Brothers when your dad was so young. I would love the link to your mom and dad’s services. I know that he wasn’t with the Blackwood Brothers very long, but I listen to him sing on YouTube with them over and over again. I thought maybe you had a brother in Murfreesboro, TN, but that could be someone else. I live in Brentwood, TN and I’m 74. I started going to gospel singing when I was about 9 years old. I loved the Statesmen with Jake Hess too! Speaking of this virus, my daughter is a physician in a hospital in Columbia, TN. It is very traumatic to see patients suffer with this virus. I continue to pray for her safety and all healthcare workers, plus I pray that people will get vaccinated. Are you Heather Coe or is that your sister? I really appreciate your response to my comment. I look forward to receiving the link to your dad’s services. Also, what is your YouTube channel? Thank you again. 💜Jeanette Turner and God Bless You Too!