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    • May 7, 1915
    Kyle Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. He plays bass behind Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride," and performs in various incarnations of the family duo The Bailes Brothers
    Jun 24, 1918
    John Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Along with sibling Walter, he helps form the first successful version of The Bailes Brothers, a family duo that actually uses various combinations of four brothers from 1942 into the 1950s
    Jan 17, 1920
    Walter Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The Bailes Brothers perform country and gospel on numerous radio stations--including Nashville's WSM and Shreveport's KWKH--in the 1940s, though Walter leaves in 1947 to become a minister
    May 8, 1922
    Homer Bailes is born in Kanawha County, West Virginia. He plays fiddle with Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride," and is one of four siblings who perform in a rotating duo lineup of The Bailes Brothers from 1942 into the 1950s
    Dec 21, 1989
    John Bailes dies. A member of the first successful version of The Bailes Brothers, he was one of four siblings who played in the duo between 1942 and the 1950s
    Mar 3, 1996
    Kyle Bailes dies. He played bass behind Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride," and was one of four siblings who performed in various lineups of the Grand Ole Opry duo The Bailes Brothers
    Nov 27, 2000
    Walter Bailes dies in Sevierville, Tennessee, after enduring three heart attacks in the previous year. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry duo The Bailes Brothers in the mid-1940s before shifting into the ministry and gospel music
    Nov 21, 2009
    Hawkshaw Hawkins is inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, along with The Bailes Brothers and Doc and Chickie Williams, during a ceremony at the Cultural Center Theater in Charleston
    Dec 3, 2013
    Homer Bailes dies in Ruston, Louisiana. A fiddler with Hank Williams on "The Louisiana Hayride" during the 1940s, he was the last remaining member of The Bailes Brothers, an early Grand Ole Opry act
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