The Cox Family

[[Image:Cox music family of Cotton Valley, LA IMG 3541.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Cotton Valley honors the Cox family with a tourism billboard.]] '''The Cox Family''' is an American country/bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.<ref name="Larkin90">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2000|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0427-8|page=100}}</ref> The Cox Family can be heard on the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack. Their 1994 collaboration with Alison Krauss, ''I Know Who Holds Tomorrow'', won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.<ref name="Larkin90"/> They were nominated for another Grammy for their album ''Beyond the City''. They may also be heard on the ''Traveller'' (1997) motion picture soundtrack with their renditions of the Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" and "Sweeter Than the Flowers". In 2015, they released ''Gone Like the Cotton'', their first album for nearly 20 years.

Evelyn Cox died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 66.<ref>{{cite web |title=Evelyn Marie Cox Hobbs |url=https://www.vivianfuneralhome.com/obituary/evelyn-hobbs |website=Gorsulowsky Funeral Home |access-date=12 May 2026}}</ref>

==Members== *Evelyn Cox (June 20, 1959 – May 5, 2026) – guitar, vocals *Lynn Cox (born October 11, 1960) – bass, vocals *Sidney Cox (born July 21, 1965) – banjo, dobro, guitar, vocals *Suzanne Cox (born June 5, 1967) – mandolin, vocals *Willard Cox (June 9, 1937 – November 4, 2019), fiddle, vocals *Dennis Sunderman – bass

==Discography== ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"| Title ! rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Album details ! colspan="2"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Grass ! width="45"| US Heat |- ! scope="row"| ''Quiet Storm'' | * Release date: unknown * Label: Wilcox Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Heartaches Along the Horizon'' | * Release date: 1987 * Label: Wilcox Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone'' | * Release date: April 1, 1993 * Label: Rounder Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''I Know Who Holds Tomorrow'' | * Release date: January 28, 1994 * Label: Rounder Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Beyond the City'' | * Release date: April 25, 1995 * Label: Rounder Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Just When We're Thinking It's Over'' | * Release date: July 30, 1996 * Label: Asylum Records | — | — |- ! scope="row"| ''Gone Like the Cotton'' | * Release date: October 23, 2015 * Label: Rounder Records | 1 | 23 |- | colspan="4" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}

===Singles=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:22em;"| Single ! Album |- | 1993 ! scope="row"| "Cry, Baby, Cry" | ''Everybody's Reaching Out for Someone'' |- | 1994 ! scope="row"| "Walk Over God's Heaven" (with Alison Krauss) | ''I Know Who Holds Tomorrow'' |- | 1996 ! scope="row"| "Runaway" | rowspan="2"| ''Just When We're Thinking It's Over'' |- | 1997 ! scope="row"| "Cry, Baby, Cry" (re-issue) |- |}

===Music videos=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:22em;"| Video ! Director |- | 1994 ! scope="row"| "Walk Over God's Heaven" (with Alison Krauss)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/alison-krauss/111037/walk-over-gods-heaven.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920024808/http://www.cmt.com/videos/alison-krauss/111037/walk-over-gods-heaven.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 20, 2008|title=CMT : Videos : Alison Krauss : Walk Over God's Heaven|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 6, 2012}}</ref> | Joanne Gardner |- | 1996 ! scope="row"| "Runaway"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/the-cox-family/385076/runaway.jhtml|title=CMT : Videos : The Cox Family : Runaway|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 6, 2012}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | John Lloyd Miller |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://coxfamilymusic.com/ Cox Family website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20040530102438/http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/cox_family_the/bio.jhtml Cox Family biography on CMT Website] * {{discogs artist|The Cox Family}} * {{imdb name|2645653}}

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