Artist The Hoyle Brothers

The Hoyle Brothers are just another example that Chicago can pull off traditional country just as well as any of those Nashville hot shots. This honky-tonk quintet keeps it real with two-step rhythms and some of the purest lyrics around. The Brothers—who aren’t actually related—have been melting hearts with their irresistible wholesomeness by maintaining weekly residences at The Hideout and the Empty Bottle since 2002. That’s eight years of good, clean fun for those who were counting, so they have to be doing something right. Since 1993, The Hoyle Brothers have released a handful of pretty standard country albums, including Home For The Holidays, Back To The Door, and Don’t Leave Yet.

Updated 09/02/2011