Natural in the coal mining region of southeastern Kentucky they were naturals singing "Nine Pound Hammer," and "The Knoxville Girl" & more mining songs & folk song of the Appalachian Mountains.

Because of the captain hicks-month age difference it didn't begin singing together - Bobby using a distinctive & unparalleled natural high lead voice swimming guitar and younger brother Sonny boy's rich baritone.

Cub at age Thirteen, one of a alumni of the Bill Monroe "school of bluegrass" recorded with a Bluegrass Boys in Decca and had many recordings of his have on the Gateway label prior to becoming the duo using his brother around 1953 below Bobby's discharge from either the U.S. Marine Corps.

Their recording debut was by using MGA around 1956 and these recordings are considered to however rank among a completely-instance classic examples of Osborne Brother style. It get on these recording that it changed the customary arrangement of trio harmony area to produce a newly & entirely unique healthy. A MGM releases of the late fifties clearly marked the two as an significant class action around country music.

Within 1963 it signed by using Decca (okay, MCA) & became members of the Grand Ole Opry on August 8 1964.

These Decca recordings established a successful practice of featuring a Osborne "big voice" healthy when rendering greatly increased prominence to the implemental genius of the duo. Sonny boy & his 5-string banjo and Bobby with his mandolin. These records feature Lad's intricate function on the banjo, typically inside the radically different "single string" fashion when however bringing retired a beating cause for which a instrument is justly famed.

Bobby's individualistic mandolin style hwhen been described as "bluegrass jazz" & he typically delights his audience by laying down his mandolin & demonstrating that he is renowned "hoedown" fiddler.

Additionally to "Rocky Top," a Orange & Whiten battle song for UT athletic teams, their hit records include "Making Plans," "Up This Hill and Down," "Midnight Flyer," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Muddy Bottom," "Tennessee Houndog," "Georgia Pineywoods," "Kentucky," & "Ruby."

Around 1994 they were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.