The Bailes Brothers were one of the top country music groups of the 1940s and the first West Virginians to become stars on the Grand Ole Opry. Kyle, Johnnie, Walter, and Homer Bailes grew up in Kanawha County, raised by their widowed mother during the Great Depression. Inspired by church and radio music, they began performing duets, playing stringed instruments, and singing heartfelt songs.

In 1944, they moved to Nashville to join the Grand Ole Opry and recorded hits like "Dust On the Bible" and "I Want to Be Loved." Walter later wrote "Give Mother My Crown," which became a Flatt and Scruggs hit. By the late 1940s, some of the brothers left music for church work but still performed off and on.

They were inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2009.