The Cox Family

The Cox Family is an American country/bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.^[1] The Cox Family can be heard on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Their 1994 collaboration with Alison Krauss, I Know Who Holds Tomorrow, won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.^[1] They were nominated for another Grammy for their album Beyond the City. They may also be heard on the Traveller (1997) motion picture soundtrack with their renditions of the Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" and "Sweeter Than the Flowers". In 2015, they released Gone Like the Cotton, their first album for nearly 20 years.

Members

Evelyn Cox (born June 20, 1959) – guitar, vocals
Lynn Cox (born October 11, 1960) – bass, vocals
Sidney Cox (born July 21, 1965) – banjo, dobro, guitar, vocals
Suzanne Cox (born June 5, 1967) – mandolin, vocals
Willard Cox (June 9, 1937 – November 4, 2019), fiddle, vocals
Dennis Sunderman – bass

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	US Grass	US Heat
Quiet Storm	Release date: unknown Label: Wilcox Records	—	—
Heartaches Along the Horizon	Release date: 1987 Label: Wilcox Records	—	—
Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone	Release date: April 1, 1993 Label: Rounder Records	—	—
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow	Release date: January 28, 1994 Label: Rounder Records	—	—
Beyond the City	Release date: April 25, 1995 Label: Rounder Records	—	—
Just When We're Thinking It's Over	Release date: July 30, 1996 Label: Asylum Records	—	—
Gone Like the Cotton	Release date: October 23, 2015 Label: Rounder Records	1	23
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Album
1993	"Cry, Baby, Cry"	Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone
1994	"Walk Over God's Heaven" (with Alison Krauss)	I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
1996	"Runaway"	Just When We're Thinking It's Over
1997	"Cry, Baby, Cry" (re-issue)	Just When We're Thinking It's Over

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1994	"Walk Over God's Heaven" (with Alison Krauss)^[2]	Joanne Gardner
1996	"Runaway"^[3]	John Lloyd Miller

References

^ ^a ^b Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music (First ed.). Virgin Books. p. 100. ISBN 0-7535-0427-8.
^ "CMT : Videos : Alison Krauss : Walk Over God's Heaven". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on September 20, 2008. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
^ "CMT : Videos : The Cox Family : Runaway". Country Music Television. Retrieved October 6, 2012.^{[dead link‍]}

External links

[Larkin90-1] Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music (First ed.). Virgin Books. p. 100. ISBN 0-7535-0427-8.

[2] "CMT : Videos : Alison Krauss : Walk Over God's Heaven". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on September 20, 2008. Retrieved October 6, 2012.

[3] "CMT : Videos : The Cox Family : Runaway". Country Music Television. Retrieved October 6, 2012.^{[dead link‍]}

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