Hazel Hope Jarrard

Musician
Best known for Songwriter

Hazel Hope Jarrard was the co-author, with Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys, of the heart-song “Behind These Prison Walls of Love.” The Blue Sky Boys introduced the song on record in 1948; the Country Gentlemen carried it into the standard bluegrass repertoire a decade later.

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  • Co-wrote “Behind These Prison Walls of Love” with Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys.
  • The Blue Sky Boys cut the first commercial recording of the song in 1948.
  • The song has since been recorded by the Country Gentlemen, Peter Rowan, Charlie Moore, Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass, and many other bluegrass acts, and remains a fixture of the bluegrass-jam repertoire.

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