The Lilly Brothers’ career was later chronicled in a 1979 documentary "True Facts in a Country Song". In 1973 the Lilly Brothers made a tremendously successful tour of Japan, including the release of three live albums. For the remainder of the 1970s, the brothers would reunite on several occasions. The death of Everett Lilly's son, Giles, in a car crash in 1970 brought to an end the brothers’ career in Boston and Everett left the town. The personnel of the Lilly Brothers didn't change between 19 and is considered one of bluegrass music's most stable lineups. In the 1960s they appeared in concerts at several major colleges and at folk festivals. Somewhere along the line they changed the group's name to the Lilly Brothers. Soon, they were making records for the Folkways, Prestige and Event labels. They performed on WCOP's Hayloft Jamboree and as a house band at local clubs such as the Plaza Bar, the Mohawk Ranch, and the Hillbilly Ranch.
The Lilly Brothers moved to Boston and formed a group called the " Confederate Mountaineers" who consisted of the brothers on guitar and mandolin, Logan on fiddle, and Don Stover on banjo.
Įverett Lilly (center, seated, with mandolin) and the Lilly Mountaineers, in performance in 2009 The next year, in 1952, 'Tex' Logan, whom they had met at the WWVA Jamboree, persuaded the brothers to reunite. In 1951, Everett joined Flatt & Scruggs as mandolin player. In 1948, the brothers signed with the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia as members of "Red Belcher's Kentucky Ridge Runners", but they quit two years later because of a financial dispute and the brothers retired temporarily. In 1945, they appeared on the Molly O'Day radio show at WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee. Other radio works followed at WJLS in Beckley, West Virginia and on several other Southern radio stations during the 1940s. In 1938, they made their radio debut on the Old Farm Hour show at WCHS in Charleston, West Virginia. Influenced by the traditional music they heard in their youth, Bea began playing the guitar and Everett the mandolin. They have been credited with bringing bluegrass to New England and with influencing such future bluegrass artists as Peter Rowan, Joe Val and Bill Keith, among others. The Lilly Brothers, ( Bea Lilly, born Michael Burt Lilly, Decem– Septemand brother Everett Lilly, born J– May 8, 2012) were bluegrass musicians born in Clear Creek, West Virginia.
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