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In 2006, Grant received the [[International Bluegrass Music Association]] (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award<ref name=BG-ibma-2017>{{cite web |url=https://ibma.org/awards/recipient-history
In 2006, Grant received the [[International Bluegrass Music Association]] (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award<ref name=BG-ibma-2017>{{cite web |url=https://ibma.org/awards/recipient-history
|title=Recipient History|work=IBMA|accessdate=August 27, 2017|author= |date= }}</ref>, and in 2008, he was recognized as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in [[Owensboro, Kentucky]].
|title=Recipient History|work=IBMA|accessdate=August 27, 2017|author= |date= }}</ref>, and in 2008, he was recognized as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in [[Owensboro, Kentucky]]. Grant was also inducted in to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.<ref name=
>{{cite web |url=http://omhof.com/inductee/bill-grant/|title=Bill Grant|work=Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame|accessdate=August 27, 2017|author= |date= }}</ref>


===Salt Creek Park===
===Salt Creek Park===

Revision as of 21:57, 27 August 2017

Bill Grant and Delia Bell
OriginHugo, Oklahoma
GenresBluegrass music
LabelsKiamichi Records, County, Rebel, Rounder, Warner Bros.

Bill Grant and Delia Bell are a bluegrass music duo from Oklahoma. Emmylou Harris has said of Delia Bell: “If Kitty Wells and Hank Williams had had a child—if somehow their voices had been able to spawn a woman singer—Delia Bell would be it.” Grant has been recognized as "Ambassador of Bluegrass Music" by three Oklahoma governors.

Biography

Early career

Delia Bell was born Delia Nowell on 16 April 16, 1938 in Bonham, Texas. Bill Grant was born Billy Joe Grant on May 9, 1930 in Hugo, Oklahoma.

Bell moved to Hugo as a child and began singing in her teens. She married Bobby Bell, and in 1959 she began singing with Bobby's friend Bill Grant. In 1960, Bell and Grant were regulars on the Little Dixie Hayride radio show on KIHN radio.

Performing and recording career

In the late 1960s, Grant and Bell formed the Kiamichi Mountain Boys, named after the Kiamichi Mountains near their home.

They recorded more than a dozen albums for their own label Kiamichi Records as well as albums on County Records, Rebel Records, Rounder Records, and Warner Brothers. They toured England and Ireland 11 times during the 1970s.

The Kiamichi Mountain Boys were disbanded in 1980. After that, Grant and Bell worked either worked with the Johnson Mountain Boys or as a mandolin/guitar duo.

Impressed by Bell's version of the song "Roses In The Snow," Emmylou Harris recorded it as the title track of her 1980 bluegrass album, and in 1982, Harris produced Bell's self-titled solo album on Warner Bros. Records. It reached #35 on the Billboard charts, but Warner Bros. dropped her and others artists from their roster.

2006, they stopped performing for health reasons. In 2009, Rounder released Dreaming, a compilation album.

Awards

In 2006, Grant received the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement award[1], and in 2008, he was recognized as a Pioneer of Bluegrass Music by the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. Grant was also inducted in to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.[2]

Salt Creek Park

From 1969 until 2003, Grant hosted Grant's Bluegrass Festival on a 360-acre cattle ranch near Hugo. He named the festival site "Salt Creek Park."[3]

Discography

Bill Grant and Delia Bell

  • 1979: In England (Kama KZ 1007)
  • 1980: Bill Grant & Delia Bell (Rebel REB 1593)
  • 1981: Rollin’ (Rebel REB-1604)
  • 1984: The Cheer of the Home Fires (Rounder 0187)
  • 1985: A Few Dollars More (Rounder 0217)
  • 1988: Following a Feeling (Rounder 0257)
  • 1997: Dreaming (Rounder CD 0427) compilation

Delia Bell

With The Kiamichi Mountain Boys

  • 1972: Bill Grant, Delia Bell and the Kiamichi Mountain Boys (Kiamichi KMB 101) reissued in 1976 as My Kiamichi Mountain Home
  • 1974: Kiamichi Country (Kiamichi KMB 102)
  • 1975: There Is a Fountain (Kiamichi KMB 103)
  • 1976: Fourteen Memories (Kiamichi KMB 104)
  • 1976: The Last Christmas Tree (Kiamichi KMB 105)
  • 1978: My Pathway Leads to Oklahoma (Kiamichi KMB 107)
  • 1979: The Blues Mountain Style (Kiamichi KMB 108) reissued in 1988
  • 1980: Man in the Middle (Kiamichi KMB 108) reissued in 1988 with same title (Old Homestead OHS-70077)

References

  1. ^ "Recipient History". IBMA. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Bill Grant". Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Bluegrass Festival Scheduled Near Hugo". NewsOK. July 31, 1988. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
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