The first time all four of them stood together in front of a TV camera, the song they chose was “I’ll Go to My Grave Loving You,” the Statler Brothers love song Don Reid wrote back in the 1970s. Two of the singers came from Don’s side of the family, two from Harold’s: two sons and two grandsons.
Their names are Jack and Davis Reid. This fall, the two cousins went to Nashville and came home as Country Duo of the Year.
Two cousins, three generations
Jack Reid is the son of Wil Reid and the grandson of Harold Reid, the deep bass voice and the comedian of the Statler Brothers. Davis Reid is the son of Langdon Reid and the grandson of Don Reid, the group’s lead singer and one of its main songwriters.
Wil and Langdon have carried their own part of the story for years. They started singing together in the 1990s, first as Grandstaff and later as Wilson Fairchild. In 2007 they recorded a tribute called “The Statler Brothers Song.”
Jack and Davis are cousins, not brothers. But they grew up the same way their dads did, in Staunton, Virginia, around a family where music was simply part of life.
“We’ve grown up watching our dads play.” — Jack Reid
Starting small, the honest way
Jack picked up the guitar when he was very young. Davis came to music later. Jack has said he had to talk his cousin into it, and that Davis now plays better than he does. Not long ago, Davis was still teaching himself piano.
Today Jack sings lead and plays guitar, and Davis plays keyboard and sings harmony. They didn’t start on big stages. Their early shows were the kind of dates country fans in Virginia know well: a Ruritan club building in McDowell, an old Masonic theater in Clifton Forge, community centers, fairs and festivals. One theater billed them as “Statler Brothers 3.0.”
The night four Reids stood together
In the fall of 2025, Wilson Fairchild taped a TV special for the Gaither Music Group’s “American Songbook” series. Jack and Davis joined their fathers on stage for “I’ll Go to My Grave Loving You,” and that performance made it onto the DVD and the broadcast.
That was the beginning of what the family now calls The Statler Experience. Jack and Davis open the show, Wil and Langdon play their set, and then all four come back out together to sing about five Statler Brothers songs. The first live one was held in Kentucky.
Jack calls it almost unbelievable. Watching their dads perform was how they grew up, and now they share the stage with them.
“It really is a full-circle moment.” — Jack Reid
Davis has noticed something about the crowds. The sound of four Reid voices is special, he says, but it’s the sight of all four of them walking out together that makes people reach for their phones and start recording.
Songs of their own
The Statler songs are only part of the show. Jack and Davis have just released their second album, Don’t Wanna Talk About It, with 10 original songs they wrote together.
One of them, “Dear Carolina,” was written while they were driving between shows. At a recent concert, the crowd sang it back to them word for word. For two young men who could easily have built a career on their grandfathers’ catalog, that matters. People are learning their songs, not just the old ones.
Country Duo of the Year at the Opry
In late September 2026, the Josie Music Awards were held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The show honors independent musicians across every genre. Jack and Davis were first invited to present an award. Then fans started telling them they had been nominated for Country Duo of the Year.
They won. It was their first award. Jack said they hadn’t expected it and were just happy to go to the Opry. Davis said they wanted to bring it home for the fans and families who had been rooting for them.
“We wanted to win it for everyone else.” — Davis Reid
What the Statlers left behind
Harold Reid died in Staunton in April 2020 at the age of 80. He was a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. His bass voice can’t be replaced, and nobody in the family pretends otherwise.
The Statler sound was also never only the Reids. Phil Balsley’s baritone, Lew DeWitt’s high tenor and later Jimmy Fortune’s voice all helped make it what fans remember. Jack and Davis aren’t trying to rebuild that quartet. They sing the songs with respect, and then they go write their own.
For a quarter century, the Statler Brothers threw a Fourth of July celebration in their hometown of Staunton. This past July 4, Jack and Davis were on the bill at Staunton’s Happy Birthday America concert, with Wilson Fairchild right after them. It was the same town and the same holiday, and the family was still singing.
Did you ever see the Statler Brothers live, or make it to one of those Fourth of July shows in Staunton? We’d love to hear your memories.