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About this artist:
. In March 1956, Red Allen began an incredibly fruitful partnership with the
Osborne Brothers, shortly after they had signed on with the Wheeling Jamboree,
a popular radio show broadcast from the Virginia Theater in Wheeling, WV. Four
months after he joined the group, they made their first recording with MGM
Records, and built their audience over the next year by a steady program of
touring and recording. In the spring of 1958, their song, "Once More," hit number
13 on the country charts and helped earn the band a steady following.
Red Allen left the Osborne Brothers at the end of 1958 and took a brief break
from recording before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1959 and forming the
Kentuckians with Frank Wakefield. Their relationship was extremely fruitful
creatively, but ultimately too tumultuous to sustain for long, and after producing
a classic album in 1964 for Smithsonian Folkways simply titled Bluegrass, they
parted ways.