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The Reeves Brothers Band

The Reeves Brothers Band is a North American Country Music group consisting of three brothers, Ralph Reeves, born December 1 1957, Wiley Reeves born December 28th 1960 and Gary Reeves Born February 1964. Sarah Goodchild/Reeves later joined the group in the late 1980's playing bass guitar. The Reeves Brothers were born and raised on a 60 acre farm in Cecil County Maryland that was originally bought by their grandfather Wiley A Reeves in 1942. The Reeves Brothers have written over 200 songs and have recorded at least 70 of their own original works. The Reeves Brothers are best known for the album Dad that they recorded at Hilltop studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The album, recorded in 1988, consisted of 10 original songs, including chart records such as Poor Boys Dream They later went on to record new hits such as Same Time Same Place Same Station' in a local studio in South Florida. This song would also become a new chart record. The Reeves Brothers started their career in 1979 when Ralph and Wiley Reeves went to Nashville and recorded the first two songs Dad and The Painter. The following year Jason Hawkins,also know as Jack Powell, who was acting producer/Promoter at the time, arranged another recording session for the Brothers and they soon recorded "Two Neighbors" and I guess I'll keep on living. The Reeves Brothers have performed at hundreds of venues including Mickey Gilly's night club in Pasadena Texas, Ernest Tubb's Midnight Jamboree in Nashville, Sunset Park in West Grove Pa, and several years with many of the top Grand Ole Opry legends. In the late 1980's The Reeves Brothers started performing in their home town at Cecil College, where they would have some of the Grand ole Opry stars along with local groups join them. Among the performing artists were Mac Wiseman and Stonewall Jackson. They did a Grand ole Opry style show full of jokes, magicians as well as square dancers. You can see and hear over 60 of the Reeves Brothers original recordings on Youtube, also listed as the Original Reeves Brothers Band. You can also find a majority of their music on musical outlets such as, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music and many others.