Friday, April 16, 2021

Bill and Wilma Millsaps and the Snowbird Mtn. Boys

 

Bill and Wilma Millsaps
and the Snowbird Mtn. Boys

31929 - Mule Skinner
31930 - Snowbird Mtn.

IDA Records
P.O. Box 85 Robbinsville, NC

On the record is their part-time bass player Jake Tullock, formerly with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs for many years


Bill Millsaps is a distant relative of Daniel Boone. He previously worked with Carl Story, Kenny Baker and Josh Graves. Began performing with Wilma shortly after their marriage in 1967. Formed the Snowbird Mountain Boys in 1969, then the Snowbird Mountain Trio.  Snowbird Mountain is an actual mountain on the North Carolina-Tennessee state line (just below the Smokies).

Bill & Wilma Millsaps discography

Acknowledgments : Martin Hall (YouTube)

Also on the same label in 1973 :
Bill and Wilma Millsaps
and the Snowbird Mtn. Boys : In The Pines / Bluebirds Singing For Me (Rite 32241/2)

Ralston (Bowles) on Sound



Ralston

27643 - Thankful
27644 - Realization
Sound
SCR 114
Sound Associates
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1971


 


Born in 1952, Ralston Bowles is today often referred to as the godfather of West Michigan's acoustic music scene. His songwriting has been lauded and awarded. He has opened for Shawn Colvin, T Bone Burnett, Arlo Guthrie and for Bob Dylan at the Rothbury music festival.

 

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralston_Bowles

https://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/2009/08/profile_musician_and_songwrite.html