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Rose Maddox exerted much impact on honky tonk females through her recordings using the Maddox Brothers but later on considered traditional bluegrass forms aswell to inspire folk revivalists from the 1960s and ’70s. Created on August 15, 1925, Maddox relocated from Alabama to Modesto, CA, with her family members to …

The Maddox Brothers (Cliff, Cal, Fred, Don, and “friendly Henry, the working girl’s friend”) and their sister Rose called themselves “America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Music group.” They weren’t kidding. It wasn’t only a matter of hillbilly couture — though making use of their coordinating Turk fits and spangles the family …