Pictured: The Maddox Brothers & Rose. (Don Maddox, far right). Photo: Courtesy Robert K. Oermann
Don Maddox, the last survivor of the legendary honky-tonk/rockabilly pioneering band The Maddox Brothers & Rose, has died at age 98.
From 1937 to 1956, The Maddox Brothers & Rose became known as “the most colorful hillbilly band in the land.” Their stage act was packed with wildly raucous, unpredictable antics and they were among the first country acts to embrace sequined, spangled “Nudie” outfits.
The Maddox sound was a bold, loud fusion of electric guitars and barroom rhythm that helped define the evolution of honky-tonk music in the 1940s. The brothers’ slap-back bass “country boogie” undertow and Rose’s exuberant vocals prefigured the rise of rockabilly music in the 1950s.
The band also popularized the songwriting of Woody Guthrie. The ensemble’s version of his “Philadelphia Lawyer” in 1949 became both his and the group’s biggest country hit. Other notable Maddox recordings featuring Don include “Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down,” “Mean and Wicked Boogie,” “Whoa Sailor,” “Water Baby Blues,” “Alimony” and “Hangover Blues.”
The Maddox saga is one of the most cinematic in country-music history. Sharecropper mama Lula Maddox and husband Charlie left dirt-farm Alabama poverty with their kids in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. Don, then aged 10, and his siblings learned to ride the rails to California, where they made newspaper headlines as residents inside lengths of large drainage culvert pipes.
They became crop pickers in the San Fernando Valley and began entertaining in the labor camps. The Maddox band was comprised of Cliff (1912-1949), Cal (1915-1968), Fred (1919-1992), Don (1922-2021), Rose (1925-1998) and Henry (1928-1974), who replaced Cliff when the latter died. Lula became the manager and domineering stage mother.
She and her outgoing son Fred talked KTRB in Modesto, California into hosting a radio show for the family act in 1937, leading to performances for tips in honky-tonk dives and hillbilly nightclubs. In 1939, The Maddox Brothers & Rose won a talent contest that rewarded them with a regionally syndicated radio show in California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. Their popularity soared.
After Don and his brothers served in the armed forces during WWII, the band retooled its act to become more entertaining. The siblings adopted eye-popping costumes, resplendent with satin sleeves, long fringe, embroidered designs, spangled trim, elaborately tooled boots and flowing kerchiefs. The Maddoxes gaudy, flower-encrusted cowboy/Mexican outfits defined the country-music look for generations to come.
Their onstage behavior was equally showy, as the brothers incorporated shrieking comedy routines, blaring honky-tonk vocal wailing, hepped-up hillbilly versions of R&B tunes, zany ad-libbing sound effects and cackling laughter into their flashy performances. “Don Juan,” as he was dubbed, was the band’s fiddler and chief comedian, as well as a vocalist. The five spangled crazies traveled in a fleet of matching, gleaming black Cadillacs.
After the band’s breakup, Rose Maddox went solo, scoring a dozen top-20 hits in the 1950s and 1960s and giving the little-known Buck Owens a boost as her duet partner.
Following a successful career as a cattle rancher in Ashland, Oregon, Don reemerged as a performer, too. He began appearing at music festivals in the 1990s as a representative founder of rock n roll.
Don Maddox opened for Big & Rich at the Britt Festival in Oregon in 2005. He performed at the Muddy Roots Festival in Cookeville, Tennessee in 2011 and 2012. He appeared on Marty Stuart’s Nashville TV show, earned a standing ovation at his guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry and recorded three solo fiddle albums.
Maddox was featured in the “Bakersfield” exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012-14. He headlined in Las Vegas at the first annual Rockabilly Rockout convention in 2014. In 2019, he was featured in the Ken Burns PBS documentary Country Music.
Don Maddox passed away on Sept. 12. He is survived by his wife Barbara, who he affectionately referred to as his “child bride.”
The family has donated Maddox’s fiddle along with other memorabilia to Stuart for a planned “Congress of Country Music” facility to be built in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Maddox will be remembered at a graveside service at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27, at Scenic Hills Memorial Park, 2585 E. Hills Dr. in Ashland, Oregan. Maddox’s wife said the service, which will include military honors, is open to all.
Raleigh Keegan Gets Personal On New Project ‘Clocks Roll Forward’
/by Lorie HollabaughRaleigh Keegan. Photo: Sean McGee
Raleigh Keegan’s upcoming full-length album, Clocks Roll Forward, is slated for release on Oct. 15. To celebrate the upcoming project, Keegan has released“Sure Like Lovin’ You,” co-written with Leslie Satcher and Phil Barton.
Produced by Grammy-award winning Ryan Gore, Clocks Roll Forward features 13 tracks all co-written by Keegan, including the powerful “Our First Goodbye” written about his birth mother; the push and pull of a toxic relationship in “I Love You;” the personal “Like My Daddy Was” written about his biological father; and the driving “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know.”
“I have been waiting for this moment since late 2019 when I started this project,” Keegan shares. “I think it will help people truly get to know me from the stories woven into the songs on this album, and it’s exciting to me to be able to connect in that way. Clocks Roll Forward is the album title because time moves so fast and this album has brought so many influences of my past to life through song. That’s also a lyric from ‘Way Back’ that speaks to me personally. This album is a full length introduction to my life and a segue to the projects ahead that are already underway.”
Keegan will perform some of the new music and talk about the album from Old Hickory Lake with host Misty Wells on Let’s Take It Outside, which airs on Bally Sports on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. CT.
Keegan has accumulated over 7 million streams across his catalog to date, and has opened for artists such as Eric Church, Brothers Osborne, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Drake White, and Mitchell Tenpenny. He has grown his social media fan base to nearly 150,000 followers and has more than 200,000 monthly listeners across platforms.
Way Back (Raleigh Keegan, Kyle Sturrock)
Long Line of Lovers (Raleigh Keegan, Lonnie Fowler, Joel Shewmake)
Trainwreck (Raleigh Keegan, Leslie Satcher)
Jealous Of The Sun (Raleigh Keegan, Thomas Archer, Tyler Reeve)
Easy On The Trigger (Raleigh Keegan, Alex Dooley, Brian Carper)
Drink For That (Raleigh Keegan, Eric Torres, Matt Rogers)
Another Good Day (Raleigh Keegan, Alex Dooley, Brian Carper)
Handyman (Raleigh Keegan, Marshall Altman)
Like My Daddy Was (Raleigh Keegan, Autumn McEntire)
Our First Goodbye (Raleigh Keegan, Kyle Jacobs, Brice Long)
I Love You (Raleigh Keegan, Keith Follese, Adrienne Follese)
Sure Like Lovin’ You (Raleigh Keegan, Leslie Satcher, Phil Barton)
Tell Me Somethin’ I Don’t Know (Raleigh Keegan, Danielle Blakey, Steve Lester)
Tracy Lawrence Announces 16th Annual Turkey Fry & Concert
/by Lorie HollabaughTracy Lawrence will once again give back to the city of Nashville around Thanksgiving time with his 16th annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry and Benefit Concert to support Nashville Rescue Mission. Taking place on Nov. 23, this year’s event will include the annual turkey fry event held in the parking lot of Nashville Rescue Mission.
The event will then move to the SkyDeck at Assembly Hall on top of the 5th + Broadway building where Dustin Lynch, Michael Ray, Lainey Wilson and more will join Lawrence for the special benefit concert. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Sept. 24.
Since its inception in 2006, the Turkey Fry event has since raised over $600,000 for Nashville Rescue Mission, frying up over 6,400 turkeys and providing over 90,000 meals to the homeless and hungry of Middle Tennessee. To inquire about becoming a sponsor for the the 16th Annual Turkey Fry & Benefit Concert, contact Lindsey Ray at lindsey@thesteadfastco.com.
The organization recently donated $10,000 during Loretta Lynn‘s Friends: Hometown Rising fundraising event, which to date has raised nearly $1 million for United Way of Humphreys County following the Aug. 21 floods.
Lawrence is celebrating his 30th anniversary in country music this year, and to commemorate the milestone has been releasing his Hindsight 2020 project through three volumes that include new music along with his classics that fans have enjoyed for three decades.
Records Nashville Adds Chele Fassig & Laurel Kittleson-Cobb
/by Lydia FarthingChele Fassig & Laurel Kittleson-Cobb
Records Nashville, the Music City division of Barry Weiss‘ label Records, has expanded its team with two new staffing additions.
Chele Fassig will take on the role of Promotion Manager, reporting to Records Nashville co-heads of promotion, Jamice Jennings and Andy Elliott. She joins the company with over 28 years of experience in the radio industry.
Fassig began her career in Decatur, Illinois at WDZQ. After stops at WNAP and WGRL, Fassig joined WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she remained the marketing, promotion and NTR director for over 25 years. She currently serves in a Senior Media Consultant role for Beasley and officially starts in her new role on Sept. 22. Fassig can be reached at chele@recordsco.com / (704) 724-1166.
Laurel Kittleson-Cobb has been brought on as A&R Consultant. Formerly the VP of Artist Development and A&R at Curb Records, she recently launched Rainier Entertainment, a consulting company for A&R, artist development and publishing. Kittleson-Cobb’s prior stops include Big Machine Label Group, Show Dog-Universal Records and Elevation Music Publishing. She can be reached at laurel@rainierentertainment.com.
“We’re excited to continue to build out the team at Records Nashville,” comments Weiss, Partner and Co-Founder of Records. “Chele and Laurel are great additions to help take the label to the next level. Let’s go!”
Records Nashville’s roster includes chart-topping Platinum singer-songwriter Matt Stell; breakout artists George Birge, Chris Bandi, Jennifer Smestad, and Lathan Warlick; and Nelly, whose recently released Heartland album is currently Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country albums chart.
Jackson Michelson Releases Six-Song EP, ‘Back To That Summer’
/by LB CantrellMCC/Curb Records recording artist Jackson Michelson released his new EP, Back To That Summer, today (Sept. 17).
With six original songs including his current radio single, “Tip Jar,” Michelson gives listeners a glimpse into his life as an artist, songwriter, husband and father on Back To That Summer. “I wanted to peel back the layers of who I am and where I’m from with this EP,” he shares. “The EP is filled with upbeat songs that paint the picture of summer love and sunshine mixed with a bit of Pacific Northwest edge.”
Michelson co-wrote half of the project’s songs with additional writing contributions from Patrick Mencel, Justin Morgan, Jeff Pardo, Billy Montana, Ben Glover and Josh Osborne, among others.
Back To That Summer EP Track List:
1. Tip Jar (Jackson Michelson, Patrick Mencel, Justin Morgan)
2. Back To That Summer (Jackson Michelson, Kyle Schlienger, Nick Bailey)
3. Amplifier (Ben Glover, Billy Montana, Kyle Jacobs)
4. Love High (Jackson Michelson, Jeff Pardo, Wade Kirby)
5. Call Me No One (Justin Ebach, Jon Nite, Josh Osborne)
6. Stay Over (Jackson Michelson, Jeff Pardo, Molly Reed)
Chart Action: Sam Hunt Impacts Chart With “23”
/by Alex ParryThis week, MCA Nashville artist Sam Hunt is at the top of the most added list across three country charts with his latest single “23.” The song earned 166 cumulative adds across the Billboard, Mediabase, and MusicRow CountryBreakout Radio charts landing him at No. 30, No. 34, and No. 61 respectively.
Written by Hunt with Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, and Chris LaCorte who also produced the track, “23” has the singer thinking back warmly on a past relationship. Using an early photo of his wife, Hannah’s, aunt and uncle when they were a young couple for his song art, Hunt further illustrates the nostalgia and fondness of days gone by.
For more chart data, view the latest edition of The MusicRow Weekly.
Brett Eldredge Becomes ‘Mr. Christmas’ This Holiday Season
/by Lorie HollabaughBrett Eldredge. Photo: Andrew Eccles
Brett Eldredge is the latest artist to give fans a special holiday gift this year with his new Christmas album, Mr. Christmas. The project includes beloved classics alongside two never-before-heard originals, including the title track which is available everywhere now.
Written by Eldredge and frequent collaborator Ross Copperman, title track “Mr. Christmas” showcases the singer-songwriter’s vocals backed by strings, a warm big band sound, and pops of jingle bells, giving the listener an infusion of holiday spirit.
“Mr. Christmas is something that I’ve been planning out for quite a while,” explains Eldredge. “This album is so much fun and full of joy and magic. From the album cover, you can find the magic of Mr. Christmas standing in the windowfront, looking out just like the old stores on the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City and people passing by in the window. We captured that nostalgic, classic feel that Christmas brings and mixed it with the soulful side of my music influences. It’s got a lot of heart and magic–it’s a special one for people to hear.”
Mr. Christmas follows the 2020 release of his original duet with Kelly Clarkson, “Under the Mistletoe,” and his 2016 Christmas album, Glow, which peaked at No. 2 on the country charts upon release. The project also inspired a single live Christmas show in Nashville that has grown into the annual “Glow Live” holiday tour which is set to return this winter with stops in major cities across the country, including back-to-back nights in Nashville, Boston, Chicago and New York City.
“Getting to take ‘Glow Live’ on the road again after unfortunately having to miss it last year gives me so much joy, especially knowing that this tour and this music could bring a lot of joy to a lot of people that need it right now,” Eldredge adds. “My hope is that attending these shows with friends and family can be a tradition people look forward to every year for many years to come. I cannot wait to get back out there because performing these songs makes me so happy and I just hope to share that feeling with everyone in the audience as well.”
Fan club members will have early access to ticket pre-sales beginning Sept. 21. Fans can also catch Eldredge on tour this fall with his Good Day Tour which kicked off Thursday, Sept. 16.
Glow Live Tour Dates:
Nov. 13 – Las Vegas, NV – Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas*
Nov. 26 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium*
Nov. 27 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium*
Dec. 03 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theatre+
Dec. 04 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theatre+
Dec. 10 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre+
Dec. 11 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre+
Dec. 17 – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre+
Dec. 18 – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre+
*on sale Sept 24
+on sale Oct 1
Nashville-Based Solo Music Creating First Global Music Marketplace On Blockchain Platform Solana
/by Lorie HollabaughPictured (top row, L-R): Founder and CEO of Solo Music Barron Solomon; Developer Kyle Reeves; Tech Entrepreneur Luke Porter; (bottom row, L-R): Marketing Executive Tim Gerst; Tech Entrepreneur Meghan Andrykowski; Music Talent Pioneer Nick Hartley
Solo Music, the first global music marketplace built on the Solana blockchain for artists, fans and the industry, is launching the Solo Music Marketplace, a music service aimed at revolutionizing the way artists, fans, and industry professionals do business with blockchain technology.
The platform’s debuting artist partners include Eric Paslay, songwriter-producer Tommy Cecil, and recording studio Capricorn Studios, each releasing several exclusive NFTs starting in October.
The marketplace aims to create new pathways for fans to connect with their favorite artists and provide artists with innovative ways to monetize their creations through experiential and digital art NFT sales. Additional products that simplify digital asset sales through smart-contract ticketing and tokenized royalties for artists and industry professionals will launch on the platform in the coming months.
Solo Music is led by a team of industry members of Nashville’s music scene and blockchain and tech entrepreneurs. Barron Solomon, blockchain trailblazer and music enthusiast, is the visionary behind Solo Music. Other team members include music industry entrepreneur and developer Kyle Reeves, music marketing executive Tim Gerst, music talent pioneer Nick Hartley and blockchain and tech entrepreneurs Luke Porter and Meghan Andrykowski.
“Solo Music was born out of necessity. Technology has not evolved at the same rapid pace of the music and entertainment industry, resulting in slow ambiguous royalty payouts, illiquid artist assets, overpriced secondary market tickets, forged merchandise and counterfeit concert tickets,” says Solomon, founder and CEO of Solo Music. “Solo Music solves this and bridges the technology gap. With a mission of driving blockchain adoption in the music industry, we are making digital asset sales simple and profitable while providing fans with unique experiences at affordable prices.”
Fans and collectors can access the Solo Music Marketplace featuring curated artist pages, upcoming artist NFT releases or drops and charitable giving opportunities. The Marketplace will soon allow fans to purchase unique experiences and digital art designed by their favorite artists and store them on Solo Music’s secure and decentralized network. It will also allow users to pay for NFTs in U.S. dollars via credit card, making it accessible for fans of all levels of crypto knowledge to support their favorite artists. To further encourage platform adoption, the platform supports fast and direct transactions with major wallets including Sollet and Phantom. As a Solana-built marketplace, the platform benefits from low transaction fees to offer a wide range of price points for users, making the Solo NFT releases more affordable than many NFTs in the market today, with prices as low as $20.
“As a music creator and as a craftsman, I have been excited about the potential of NFTs in offering fans rare and exciting items, while generating income—not just for myself but also for my favorite charities,” says Eric Paslay, who will be launching his own NFTs on the platform. “Solo Music stood out as it is fully committed to the music space and to making the NFT process uncomplicated for fans. I’m even more excited after sitting down with the Solo Music team to map out a long-term strategy of curated drops that touch on songwriting, performances, artwork, and hand-crafted items.”
In the coming months, Solo Music will expand to include concert ticketing and tokenized royalties in partnership with the industry. The ticketing platform will offer smart-contract technology for concert tickets, and tokenized royalties will enable artists to manage their royalty streams and sell portions of or all of the rights to the cash flow associated with their royalties, while also allowing fans to invest in their favorite artists.
The company is also committed to becoming a decentralized autonomous organization with community governance in the near future and giving back to its community through monetization and experiential opportunities.
Warner Chappell Music Nashville, Low Country Sound Extend Deal With Aaron Raitiere
/by Lydia FarthingAaron Raitiere. Photo: Alysse Gafkjen
Singer-songwriter Aaron Raitiere has extended his worldwide deal with Warner Chappell Music (WCM) Nashville and Low Country Sound, the imprint founded by Grammy-winning producer/songwriter Dave Cobb.
Raitiere’s recent cuts include four songs on Anderson East’s latest album, Maybe We Never Die, including “Hood of My Car” and “Drugs;” as well as “Heroes” (Natalie Hemby); “Rock My Soul” (Oak Ridge Boys); and Midland’s upcoming radio single, “Sunrise Tells The Story.” He was also a co-writer on the Grammy Award-winning song “I’ll Never Love Again” from A Star is Born.
Raitiere’s debut single as an artist, “Everybody Else,” is available now on Dinner Time Records via Thirty Tigers.
The Kentucky native is slated to perform at the Manchester Music Hall in Lexington alongside The Steel Woods tonight (Sept. 17), and at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville on Sept. 24. He has previously toured with Paul Cauthen and Willie Nelson, and recently performed at the Barefoot Country Festival.
Raitiere is managed by Michelle Szeto (Paquin Entertainment Group) and distributed by Thirty Tigers. His publicist is Asha Goodman (Sacks & Co.), and his agents are Marc Dennis and Justin Cahill (CAA).
John Prine Livestream Tribute To Air From Galway
/by Lorie HollabaughJohn Prine. Photo: Danny Clinch
“Souvenirs: Celebrating the Life and Songs of John Prine with Family and Friends,” a special livestream tribute, will broadcast from Galway’s The Mick Lally Theatre on Oct. 4 at 1:30 p.m. CT via the theatre’s website. Tickets for the event, which will also be available for on-demand viewing Oct. 7-10, are on-sale now.
As the first public celebration of Prine’s legendary life and career, the event will feature performances from several of Prine’s close friends and supporters, including Mary Black, Paul Brady, Pat Crowley, Mette Jensen, Ruth McGill, Tanya McCole, Chris Meehan, Paul Mulligan, Little John Nee, Declan O’Rourke, Brian Palm, Bill Shanley, Sharon Shannon, Mary Staunton, Mary Stokes and Ciaran Tourish as well as Prine’s youngest son, Tommy Prine.
In addition to the performances, the broadcast will include conversations between each performer and the evening’s MC, John Creedon.
“John recognized that in Ireland people loved and accepted him outside of his life as a celebrated artist. His Irish passport was one of his most prized possessions,” shares John’s wife Fiona Whelan Prine. “We are delighted to be able to remember him with his family and musician friends from Ireland, with this very special tribute event from Galway.”
Proceeds from the event will benefit two local Irish organizations: Doras, an independent non-profit working to promote and protect the rights of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Ireland, and The Druid Theatre Company, Ireland’s leading touring theatre company.
The Last Maddox Brother, Don Maddox, Dies
/by Robert K OermannPictured: The Maddox Brothers & Rose. (Don Maddox, far right). Photo: Courtesy Robert K. Oermann
Don Maddox, the last survivor of the legendary honky-tonk/rockabilly pioneering band The Maddox Brothers & Rose, has died at age 98.
From 1937 to 1956, The Maddox Brothers & Rose became known as “the most colorful hillbilly band in the land.” Their stage act was packed with wildly raucous, unpredictable antics and they were among the first country acts to embrace sequined, spangled “Nudie” outfits.
The Maddox sound was a bold, loud fusion of electric guitars and barroom rhythm that helped define the evolution of honky-tonk music in the 1940s. The brothers’ slap-back bass “country boogie” undertow and Rose’s exuberant vocals prefigured the rise of rockabilly music in the 1950s.
The band also popularized the songwriting of Woody Guthrie. The ensemble’s version of his “Philadelphia Lawyer” in 1949 became both his and the group’s biggest country hit. Other notable Maddox recordings featuring Don include “Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down,” “Mean and Wicked Boogie,” “Whoa Sailor,” “Water Baby Blues,” “Alimony” and “Hangover Blues.”
The Maddox saga is one of the most cinematic in country-music history. Sharecropper mama Lula Maddox and husband Charlie left dirt-farm Alabama poverty with their kids in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. Don, then aged 10, and his siblings learned to ride the rails to California, where they made newspaper headlines as residents inside lengths of large drainage culvert pipes.
They became crop pickers in the San Fernando Valley and began entertaining in the labor camps. The Maddox band was comprised of Cliff (1912-1949), Cal (1915-1968), Fred (1919-1992), Don (1922-2021), Rose (1925-1998) and Henry (1928-1974), who replaced Cliff when the latter died. Lula became the manager and domineering stage mother.
She and her outgoing son Fred talked KTRB in Modesto, California into hosting a radio show for the family act in 1937, leading to performances for tips in honky-tonk dives and hillbilly nightclubs. In 1939, The Maddox Brothers & Rose won a talent contest that rewarded them with a regionally syndicated radio show in California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. Their popularity soared.
After Don and his brothers served in the armed forces during WWII, the band retooled its act to become more entertaining. The siblings adopted eye-popping costumes, resplendent with satin sleeves, long fringe, embroidered designs, spangled trim, elaborately tooled boots and flowing kerchiefs. The Maddoxes gaudy, flower-encrusted cowboy/Mexican outfits defined the country-music look for generations to come.
Their onstage behavior was equally showy, as the brothers incorporated shrieking comedy routines, blaring honky-tonk vocal wailing, hepped-up hillbilly versions of R&B tunes, zany ad-libbing sound effects and cackling laughter into their flashy performances. “Don Juan,” as he was dubbed, was the band’s fiddler and chief comedian, as well as a vocalist. The five spangled crazies traveled in a fleet of matching, gleaming black Cadillacs.
After the band’s breakup, Rose Maddox went solo, scoring a dozen top-20 hits in the 1950s and 1960s and giving the little-known Buck Owens a boost as her duet partner.
Following a successful career as a cattle rancher in Ashland, Oregon, Don reemerged as a performer, too. He began appearing at music festivals in the 1990s as a representative founder of rock n roll.
Don Maddox opened for Big & Rich at the Britt Festival in Oregon in 2005. He performed at the Muddy Roots Festival in Cookeville, Tennessee in 2011 and 2012. He appeared on Marty Stuart’s Nashville TV show, earned a standing ovation at his guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry and recorded three solo fiddle albums.
Maddox was featured in the “Bakersfield” exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012-14. He headlined in Las Vegas at the first annual Rockabilly Rockout convention in 2014. In 2019, he was featured in the Ken Burns PBS documentary Country Music.
Don Maddox passed away on Sept. 12. He is survived by his wife Barbara, who he affectionately referred to as his “child bride.”
The family has donated Maddox’s fiddle along with other memorabilia to Stuart for a planned “Congress of Country Music” facility to be built in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Maddox will be remembered at a graveside service at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27, at Scenic Hills Memorial Park, 2585 E. Hills Dr. in Ashland, Oregan. Maddox’s wife said the service, which will include military honors, is open to all.