Blue Grass Boys

This is the very room where, in 1963, Bro. Bob Jones walked into the room after hearing me play the piano and  asked me if I would be interested in playing for a quartet, because he was trying to get a quartet together, since the one he had was disbanding because the other men in the quartet were graduating from Lexington Baptist College and were going other places.

I told him that I didn't think I would be interested, because I did not play that kind of music.  He asked if I would be interested in just practicing with them, and I have been practicing with them for 43 years now.

Bro. Jones and I are the only two who have sung consistently throughout all of these 43 years, but Bro. Bob Carpenter, standing behind me as I sit at the piano, has begun to sing with us again from time to time.  We enjoy having him join in with us with his wonderful tenor voice.

Bro. Demas Brubacher is the gentleman on the far right of the picture, and he sang with the group for about four years until he and Bro. Carpenter graduated from the school, also. 

In 1967 Bro. Jones invited Bro. Carl Morton and Bro. Bobby Lakes to sing with the group, and we traveled together for well over 30 years.  Carl Morton is pastor (2006) of Berry Baptist Church in Berry, Kentucky.  Bobby Lakes is pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Versailles, Kentucky.

In 2005 and 2006 First Baptist Church of Harrison, Ohio, sponsored a reunion of this quartet.  Along with me, Bro. Bob Carpenter, and Bro. Bob Jones, Bro. Steve Kittle sings with us.