Rose Maddox
Roselea Arbana "Rose" Maddox (August 15, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was a country and bluegrass singer from Boaz, Alabama. Her family were sharecroppers, and when cotton prices collapsed they moved west, reaching California in 1933 and settling in Modesto. She started performing with her brothers at 11, and the family band, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, performed on Modesto radio station KTRB. The band started recording for 4 Star Records in 1947, moved to Hollywood, and appeared regularly on the Louisiana Hayride before breaking up in 1957. She raised her son, Donnie, while touring, and he later traveled with her and her brothers. She recorded as a solo artist for Capitol and had fourteen country hits between 1959 and 1964, including "Sing a Little Song of Heartache," which reached number three in 1962, and "Loose Talk," a duet with Buck Owens. Her album Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass (1962) features Bill Monroe on mandolin on five tracks and Donna Stoneman on seven. She later recorded for Arhoolie, and her bluegrass album $35 and a Dream (1994) was nominated for a Grammy Award. She appeared in the documentary The Women of Country (1993) and the film The Hi-Lo Country (1998). Her last album, The Moon Is Rising, came out in 1996. She died in Ashland, Oregon, in 1998, at age 72. Jonny Whiteside's biography Ramblin' Rose: The Life and Career of Rose Maddox won an ARSC Award for Excellence that year.
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