For over 50 years, the Grammy-award winning Oak Ridge Boys have traveled the world sharing their uplifting music. While they are best known for their country hits, they began as a top-tier gospel group before segueing into the Nashville scene in the late 1970s. Despite their genre change, they never lost sight of their gospel roots. Their faith has kept them on rock solid footing—as a band and as individuals—through life’s twists and turns. Against a backdrop of a half a century of music-making, sharing messages of faith remains the group’s top priority.
The Georgia Clodhoppers
The Oak Ridge Boys have technically been around since the 1940s, when they performed throughout East Tennessee as “Wally Fowler and The Georgia Clodhoppers.” Original bandmate Wally Fowler suggested they change their name to the Oak Ridge Quartet when they began performing regularly for employees of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which oversaw the production of materials for the making of the atom bomb.
Cover of the 2013 compilation CD of "Wally Fowler With His Georgia Clodhoppers and The Oak Ridge Boys." Wally Fowler
