Maggard Sound

1970s-2000s recording studio in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Also shown as Maggard Studio. For the studio's in-house label, see Mag (6). Specializing in Country Gospel, Southern Gospel, Mountain Gospel, Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel recording, Maggard Sound is a full service commercial studio that can handle Tracking, Mixing, Mastering and Production. Maggard Sound began as a private recording studio in 1963 when Charlie Maggard needed somewhere to record the songs he had been writing at the time. Charlie Maggard was in a bluegrass band with Albert Elliot, Don Neely, and Bill Crabtree, then called "The Virginia Bluegrass Singers". Sometime in 1964 The Virginia Bluegrass Singers recorded four songs in the living room of Charlie's house on recording equipment supplied by Bill Crabtree. These early recordings were released on Cozy Records (2) under "The Elliot Brothers with Bill Crabtree And His Famous Banjo." The recordings included "Too Late", "Your Steppin' On My Heart", "One More Tomorrow" and "Why, Oh Why."