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WILDWOOD VALLEY BOYS - WHEN I GET BACK TO GEORGIA (REB-1751), 1999

Musicians
Tony Holt: Guitar, Vocals
Jeff Holt: Vocals
Harlan Gabbard: Dobro, Mandolin, Vocals
Gerald Evans, Jr.: Fiddle, Mandolin
Wes Vanderpool: Banjo
Glenn Inman: Bass

Production Credits
Produced by The Wildwood Valley Boys
Recorded at Jordan Recording Studios, Covington, KY
Engineered and mixed by Dennis Hensley
Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO

The original version of The Wildwood Valley Boys was in many ways an extension of The Boys From Indiana. Tony and Jeff Holt and Harlan Gabbard – the nucleus of the Wildwood Valley Boys – are the sons of Aubrey and Jerry Holt and Harley Gabbard – the driving forces behind the Boys From Indiana. Even the band name has significance as Wildwood Valley is the location of the Holt family farm in Milan, Indiana.

The Wildwood Valley Boys organized in 1992 but it was not until 1999 that the group released their debut recording. In all, the group recorded five projects for the label, four of which were straight ahead bluegrass and one of which was gospel.

Inventive songwriting had always been a hallmark of the Boys From Indiana and that trait carried over to the new band. Of the 12 songs on this recording, ten of them were originals by various Holt family members. The two “cover” songs were familiar ones to bluegrass. One was Charlie Moore’s “Lorena Go Home” and the other was an early 1940s favorite called “Don’t Make Me Go to Bed and I’ll Be Good.”