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Chestnut Grove Quartet

Author: IVAN M. TRIBE

Chestnut Grove Quartet The Chestnut Grove Quartet of Abingdon, Virginia, is credited with sparking the revival of a cappella group singing in the Appalachian region. While another group, the Hardin Brothers , started doing it earlier, the Chestnut Grove foursome began recording earlier. Over a period of more than thirty years on a half-hour weekly radio program and at appearances in local churches, this group sold some fifty thousand long-play albums in an eighteen-month period, and inspired…

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