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The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover

Michael Burt "Bea" Lilly - Born December 5, 1921
Charles E. "Everett" Lilly - Born July 1, 1924
Don Stover - Born March 6, 1928

Playing nightly engagements at Boston's Hillbilly Ranch from 1952 until 1970, the Lilly Brothers' raw-edged, authentic sibling vocal harmony and Stover's three-finger banjo and guitar work introduced thousands each year to bluegrass music.

Born in the Clear Creek community, near Beckley, West Virginia, the Lilly Brothers, Everett and Bea, playing mandolin and guitar respectively, began by singing in churches and at area shows. Everett toured with Flatt & Scruggs in the early 1950s, participating in fourteen seminal recordings that included classic duets with Lester Flatt. Don Stover, born four miles from the Lillys, recorded with and was briefly a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1957. In later years he recorded several albums of his own, as well as with The Lilly Brothers, and the group made several successful overseas tours. Semi retired after 1970, the brothers reorganized in 2001 as The Lilly Brothers & The Lilly Mountaineers, following Stover's death in 1996.

The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover were pioneers in bringing professionally performed southern Appalachian music to the upper northeastern region of the United States.

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