Bluegrass group from Carroll County seen at county fairs, dances, and socials throughout central Maryland, Baltimore, and the east coast. The group featured Leroy Eyler (vocals, mandolin), with his wife Dottie Eyler (vocals, guitar), and their daughter Bonnie Lou Young-Eyler (vocals), Dale Eyler (fiddle), Chris Warner (banjo), Joe Allison (fiddle, guitar), Harry Brown (fiddle), Greg Boughter (banjo)… Warner had formerly toured with Jimmy Martin, and recorded as a member of Delmer Delaney’s Windy Mt. Boys.
The group was awarded top honors at the Winchester (Virginia) Shenandoah Valley Country Music Jubilee for three years running 1963-65. They won the National Country Music contest in Warrenton, Virginia in 1963. Also appeared at Lincoln Center in New York, and the Englishtown Music Hall in New Jersey.
The Ramblers also released several 78’s in the early ‘60s on Joe Buzzard’s Fonotone label in Frederick.
The group continued to perform together into the ‘00s. Seen at the 2002 Arcadia Festival, Sykesville Carnival…
Allison toured and recorded with bluegrass artist Bob Paisley, and was later with Southern Exposure, Real Country… Warner (see bio) has also performed and recorded with the Adams Brothers, Tracy Schwarz, Bluestone…
Record releases by The Carroll County Ramblers include:
1963 Fonotone 6356 All the World Is Lonely Now / Little Lonesome Me
1963 Fonotone 6357 Miss Me When I’m Gone / Blue Eyes Crying in The Rain
1963 Fonotone 6358 We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart / Black Mountain Rag
1978 Alear 105 Mr. Bluegrass, Here’s to You / Gathering Flowers
197* Alear 305017 Red Neck Limousine / Only in A Dream World
197*(LP) Alear 200 Carroll County Ramblers Sing Gospel
1972(LP) Zap 107 Down to The Nitty Gritty
1974(LP) Zap 109 More Of the Carroll County Ramblers
1976(LP) Adelphi 2006 Carroll County Ramblers
1978(LP) Alear 198 Mr. Bluegrass Here’s to You
1989(LP) Music City 7789 Mysteries of Life
