Oak Ridge Boys ~ Similar Artists

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Ricky Van Shelton - 100% match to Oak Ridge Boys

12 January 1952, Danville, near Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Shelton was raised in a church-going family and he learned to love gospel music. His brother worked as a musician and through travelling with him, he also acquired a taste for country music. He worked as a pipe fitter but... Read more

Alabama - 83% match to Oak Ridge Boys

Statistically the biggest US country rock act of the 80s and 90s, Alabama's origins can be traced back to Fort Payne in northern Alabama. The band was originally formed in 1969 as Young Country by cousins Randy Owen (14 December 1949, Fort Payne, Alabama, USA; vocals/guitar) and... Read more

Johnny Lee - 82% match to Oak Ridge Boys

Shenandoah - 79% match to Oak Ridge Boys

The founding members of Shenandoah, formed in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA, in the mid-80s were Marty Raybon (8 December 1959, Greenville, Alabama, USA; lead vocals), who started out as a bricklayer before joining American Bluegrass Express, where he stayed for nine years before... Read more

Barbara Mandrell - 77% match to Oak Ridge Boys

25 December 1948, Houston, Texas, USA. Raised in Oceanside, near Los Angeles, California, Mandrell comes from a musical family: her father, Irby, sang and played guitar and her mother, Mary, played piano and taught music. At the age of 12, Mandrell demonstrated the steel guitar... Read more

Doug Stone - 70% match to Oak Ridge Boys

Douglas Jackson Brooks 19 June 1956, Newnan, Georgia, USA. Stone, the product of a broken home, was encouraged to become a musician by his mother, although he lived with his father following the break up. She taught him to play guitar and had put him onstage by the age of 7,... Read more

Confederate Railroad - 68% match to Oak Ridge Boys

Danny Shirley (12 August 1956, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; lead vocals/guitar), Mark DuFresne (b. 6 August 1953, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; drums), Michael Lamb (guitar/vocals), Chris McDaniel (b. 4 February 1965, Rock Springs, Georgia, USA; keyboards/vocals), Gates Nichols (b.... Read more

Ronnie Milsap - 66% match to Oak Ridge Boys

Ronnie Lee Millsaps, 16 January 1943, Robbinsville, North Carolina, USA. Milsap's mother had already experienced a stillbirth and the prospect of raising a blind child made her mentally unstable. Milsap's father took him to live with his grandparents and divorced his mother.... Read more

Steve Wariner - 66% match to Oak Ridge Boys

25 December 1954, Noblesville, Indiana, USA. Wariner played in his father's country group from the age of 10. One night he had a residency at a club near Indianapolis and the starring attraction, Dottie West, went on stage to harmonize with him. He then played bass for West and... Read more

Vern Gosdin - 57% match to Oak Ridge Boys

5 August 1934, Woodland, Alabama, USA. Gosdin's first steps in carrying out his wish to be a country singer-songwriter came in the early 50s, when as a result of singing with his two brothers in the local church, they became regulars as the Gosdin Family on WVOK Birmingham. In... Read more