[3] Four years later, in 1937, Wiley and Zeke along with banjo player Wade Mainer did some radio work in the North Carolina towns of Asheville and Raleigh.
[1] In April 1938, The Morris Brothers, fiddler Homer Sherrill and banjo player Joel Martin, calling themselves the Smilin' Rangers, performed at radio station WBTM in Danville, Virginia.
[5][6] The same year, Zeke's musical career came to a halt when he went to work in a cotton mill in Gastonia.
[4] After World War II they retired and opened an auto repair business.
[2] Well known musicians who have played with the Morris Brothers include: Carroll Best,[7] Hoke Jenkins, Red Rector, Red Smiley, Don Reno, Benny Sims and Earl Scruggs.