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Crosby Sisters

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Years active
  
1985–present

Origin
  
Tamworth, Australia


Genres
  
Country, Australian roots music

Members
  
Kelly Crosby Jodie Crosby

Similar
  
Lee Kernaghan, Slim Dusty, Lawrie Minson, Russell Morris, Tracy Coster

Larkham the crosby sisters stumblin in


The Crosby Sisters are an Australian Country Music Duo consisting of Jodie and Kelly Crosby. The sisters, won the 2001 Duo of the Year Golden Guitar Award in January with their national number one hit Trouble In The Fields. They also retained their CMAA Achiever Awards Independent Entertainers of the Year crown.

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Music career

The Multiple Golden Guitar finalists, The Crosby Sisters have enjoyed 11 top 10 hits and three successful albums, Angel, Coming On Strong and Home Spun.

In 1991 and 1997, the sisters won Duo of the Year at the Victorian Country Music Awards, and together have performed on eight Top 10 singles which have made them mainstays of country radio. Also Winning the CMAA Achiever Awards 'Independent Entertainers of the Year' in 2000.

Both sisters where induced into the Country Music Hands of Fame 1999.

In 2013, The Crosby Sisters teamed up with Brent Larkham and recorded their Album Home Spun. Both sisters are currently working on original music for the first time since their award-winning Train Of Desperation in the mid-1990s.

The Crosby Sisters have been going their own ways over the last decade with an occasional duo appearance to whet the appetites of long-time fans.

In November 2016, Jodie Crosby starting making her debut solo album,Her debut single "Hello" was released early February 2017. Written by her son Ethan Crosby-Wolfe.

Discography

  • 1995 "1995: The EP"
  • "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living"
  • "The Midnight Oil"
  • " Hey Mister"
  • " Won't be Long"
  • 1997 "Coming On Strong"
  • "Sadder Than A Man Should Be"
  • "Coming On Strong"
  • "One By One"
  • "Same Blue Still"
  • "Sorrow In The Wind"
  • "Eastbound Train"
  • "Say Goodbye To The Broken Hearted"
  • "Wings Of An Eagle" feat. Russell Morris
  • "I Never Will Marry"
  • "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living"
  • "McKean Sisters Tribute Medley (The Morning Mail/Prairie Love Knot/The Valley Where The Frangipani Grow/My Home Town"
  • "Train Of Desperation"
  • "Take These Chains From My Heart"
  • 1999 "Angel"
  • "Leather & Lace" feat. Kevin Bennett
  • "Angel From Montgomery"
  • "Hey Mister"
  • "Burning Desire"
  • "McKean Sisters Tribute Medley (The Morning Mail/Prairie Love Knot/The Valley Where The Frangipani Grow/My Home Town"
  • "One More Heartache/To Her Door"
  • " Don't Interfere With A Man"
  • 2013 "Home Spun"
  • "Billy Don't Be a Hero"
  • "Lost in Love"
  • "As Tears Go By"
  • "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"
  • "Stumblin' In"
  • "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves"
  • "In My Life"
  • "Go Your Own Way"
  • "Seven Bridges Road"
  • Personal Life

    Both Sisters and their families moved to Tamworth in 1986.

    Jodie Crosby married journalist Jon Wolfe in March 2006, but are now separated. They have one son together, Ethan Crosby-Wolfe (born March 10 1994), who is also a singer-songwriter.

    Jodie Crosby and Jon Wolfe host the morning show weekday's on 88.9FM Tamworth.

    Kelly lives in Tamworth and has three sons.

    Songs

    Train of Desperation1997
    Burning Desire1999
    Leather & Lace1999

    References

    Crosby Sisters Wikipedia