Joe isaacs bluegrass
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The Isaacs
Bluegrass Southern gospel group
This article is about the bluegrass band. For other uses, see Isaacs (disambiguation).
The Isaacs are a bluegrass Southern gospel music group consisting of mother Lily Isaacs (b. September 20, 1947), daughters Becky (b. Aug. 2, 1975) and Sonya Isaacs (b. July 22, 1974) and son Ben Isaacs (b. July 25, 1972), along with John Bowman (husband of Becky Isaacs) as an instrumentalist and songwriter. Joe Isaacs, formerly a singer and banjo player in the group, has left since his 1998 divorce from Lily Isaacs. He now does solo work on a far more localized level.
Former Kingsmen Quartet bass player, lead singer and baritone Tim Surrett was a member of group from 1997 until 2002. Surrett was married to Sonya Isaacs during this time period. Thomas Wywrot was a member from 2008 to 2011. Sonya Isaacs' husband, Jimmy Yeary, took his place.[1]
Currently, the Isaacs consists of Sonya Isaacs Yeary, Lily Isaacs, Becky Isaacs Bowman and Ben Isaacs. On August 10, 2021, they were invited to become members of the Grand Ole Opry.[2]
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Section 2: Joe Isaacs & Sacred Bluegrass
Joe Isaacs and his banjo | When he was seventeen, Joe left home, traveling across the state line to Ohio in search of a job. After he had worked long enough to save some money, he bought an old guitar and started to learn to play chords on it. Soon, however, he traded it for a banjo on which he learned to play bluegrass music. When he had mastered enough technique, he joined a bluegrass band led by Larry Sparks. When Larry left to play with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, Joe migrated from one group to another, finally joining the Greenbriar Boys in New York City. The Greenbriar Boys were a legendary bluegrass group that played an important role in bringing bluegrass music to the mainstream during the folk movement of the early- and mid-1960s. |
One of the places where the Greenbriar Boys played was Gerdes Folk City in New York City, the folk music club where Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, and Peter Paul and Mary were discovered. It was there that Joe met his future w
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