Talk:The Cox Family

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Hoping to attract more recent/authoritative history for the Cox Family, and will continue research in the coming days. Please dive in if you have new info :-) Neiljt 12:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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Was this the source: [http://www.amazon.com/All-Music-Guide-Country-Definitive/dp/0879307609]? Could that material, which contains many facts, be reduced and re-written into an acceptable format? Martinevans123 (talk) 18:37, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

History

The Cox Family started out performing at local fairs, music festivals, etc... At one particular festival in the 1980s, they met Bluegrass and Country Music star Alison Krauss, who had heard one of their recordings (a cover of the Carter Family's broken engagement) and was eager to meet them. From there, they became close friends. In the early 1990s they started working on their first album, which was produced by Krauss, and in 1993, the released Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone. A collection of traditional Bluegrass and Country songs, as well as a few originals, of which most were written by Sydney Cox. A single, Cry Baby Cry, was released to country music radio, but failed to chart. However their vocals caught the attention of many famous Country artists including, Dolly Parton and Randy Travis. In 1994, they released I Know Who Holds Tomorrow, a collaboration album with Alison Krauss, which includes the track: In the Palm of Your Hand, one of Krauss' most loved songs. This album would go on to win a Grammy Award. In 1995 they released Beyond the City, again, this album included traditional Bluegrass and Country songs, including a cover of Tanya Tucker's Lizzy and the Rainman, and a cover of the Carter Family's Broken Engagement (2 versions including one from 1974, which is the recording Krauss had heard). This album had them nominated for another Grammy. Then in 1996 they made their Major Label debut with asylum records. The album released, Just When We're Thinking it's Over took on a more Traditional Country sound, and released another single (another release of Cry Baby Cry) and had another remastered song from their first album. In 1997 they started working on another album, but as well as many other artists, the record label dropped them. They put the album on hold and focused on the other aspects of their musical career, in 2002 they were featured in the Grammy winning "O Brother Where Art Thou" film soundtrack. Later on Willard Cox, the family patriarch, was severely injured in an automobile accident, and confined to a wheelchair. In recent years, Alison Krauss started working on their lost album from 1997 recovering the 3 tracks that Willard sang, and a few other songs on which the vocals we're erased (coincidentally the vocals we're not erased from the tracks Willard sang). She brought it to the attention of a major producer who got the project back up and running. In 2015, the Cox Family released Gone Like the Cotton, the album featured the lost tracks from 1997 as well as a few new songs as well as 2 songs (Good News and Let it Roll) written by Montgomery Gentry writer, Kevin Brandt. As well as a beatle style pop song, written by kozstas larasides (who had written for Wynonna Judd) the album reached number one on the U.S. grass heat chart, and was one of the biggest country music albums of the year. Dominic1999 (talk) 06:41, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 27 February 2020

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The result of the move request was: Not moved as the name is clearly a proper name of group. (non-admin closure) – Ammarpad (talk) 08:35, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

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The Cox Family → Cox family – WP:THE. Noun. PPEMES (talk) 16:08, 27 February 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. Jerm (talk) 19:46, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose. This appears to be the name of a musical group, not an article about a family. Station1 (talk) 08:40, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

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