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{{Short description|American band}}{{Distinguish|Cox family}} The Cox Family is an American country/bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.BOOK, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin, Colin Larkin (writer), Virgin Books, 2000, First, 0-7535-0427-8, 100, 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. 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 (born June 9, 1937 - November 4, 2019) - fiddle, vocals
• Dennis Sunderman - bass

Discography

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Albums{| class“wikitable plainrowheaders” style@text-align:center;”

! rowspan=“2” style="width:20em;“| Title! rowspan=“2” style="width:18em;“| Album details! colspan=“2“| Peak chartpositions style="font-size:smaller;“! width=“45“| US Grass! width=“45“| US Heat! scope=“row“| Quiet Storm|

• Release date: unknown
• Label: Wilcox Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| Heartaches Along the Horizon|

• Release date: 1987
• Label: Wilcox Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| Everybody’s Reaching Out for Someone|

• Release date: April 1, 1993
• Label: Rounder Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| I Know Who Holds Tomorrow|

• Release date: January 28, 1994
• Label: Rounder Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| Beyond the City|

• Release date: April 25, 1995
• Label: Rounder Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| Just When We’re Thinking It’s Over|

• Release date: July 30, 1996
• Label: Asylum Records| —| —

! scope=“row“| Gone Like the Cotton|

• Release date: October 23, 2015
• Label: Rounder Records| 1| 23

“—” denotes releases that did not chart

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Singles{| class“wikitable plainrowheaders”

! Year! style="width:22em;“| Single! Album| 1993! scope=“row“| “Cry, Baby, Cry“| Everybody’s Reaching Out for Someone| 1994! scope=“row“| “Walk Over God’s Heaven” (with Alison Krauss)| I Know Who Holds Tomorrow| 1996! scope=“row“| “Runaway”

Just When We’re Thinking It’s Over

| 1997! scope=“row“| “Cry, Baby, Cry” (re-issue)“>

Music videos{| class“wikitable plainrowheaders”

! Year! style="width:22em;“| Video! Director| 1994! scope=“row“| “Walk Over God’s Heaven” (with Alison Krauss)WEB,www.cmt.com/videos/alison-krauss/111037/walk-over-gods-heaven.jhtml, CMT : Videos : Alison Krauss : Walk Over God’s Heaven, Country Music Television, October 6, 2012, | Joanne Gardner| 1996! scope=“row“| “Runaway“WEB,www.cmt.com/videos/the-cox-family/385076/runaway.jhtml, CMT : Videos : The Cox Family : Runaway, Country Music Television, October 6, 2012, | John Lloyd Miller

References

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External links

• Cox Family website
• Cox Family biography on CMT Website

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