Brush Arbor

A group shaped in NORTH PARK, California, in 1972, initially to enter a significant radio skill competition on KSON. The group, who got their name from the one-time well-known clean arbor revival conferences, featured Jim Grain (banjo, guitar, metal electric guitar, lead vocals), his sibling Joe (mandolin, electric guitar, vocals), Adam Harrah, Mike Holtzer and Dave Rose. Their achievement resulted in a recording agreement with Capitol Information and appearances around the Grand Ole Opry. An recording release resulted in their debut graph entry, ‘Happy Mary’, their edition from the Creedence Clearwater Revival pop strike. It peaked at quantity 56 but resulted in further graph entries in 1973, specifically ‘Clean Arbor Getting together with’ (including elements of the Albert Brumley gospel regular ‘I’ll Fly Aside’) and their cover edition from the Gilbert O’Sullivan pop strike, ‘Alone Once again’. They started an busy touring routine in California and produced appearances on main tv shows with many top celebrities including Johnny Money. The Academy of Nation Music (ACM) voted them the 1973 Vocal BAND OF THE ENTIRE YEAR. After departing Capitol Information, they documented for Monument and in 1976, ‘Emmylou’, an ode to Emmylou Harris, produced the country graphs, to be adopted, in 1977, making use of their seventh and last chart entry, a high 60 with ‘Obtain Down Nation Music’. They continuing to play main venues, both in america and Canada until 1979, if they decided to end touring. They produced recordings for Myrrh and for a few years played primarily at church locations in their geographic area. In 1993, these were persuaded to record an recording around the Benson label.