28 Facts About Buddy Spicher

Buddy Spicher is a member of The Nashville A-Team of session musicians, and is Grammy-nominated.

Buddy Spicher was nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year by CMA in 1983 and 1985.

Buddy Spicher was the first fiddler in the "Nashville Cats" series of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Buddy Spicher recorded with virtually every major country star of the sixties, seventies, and early eighties, including Faron Young, Johnny Paycheck Little Jimmy Dickens, Reba McEntire, George Jones, Don Williams, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, Don Francisco, Ray Price, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Bill Monroe, David Allan Coe, and Emmylou Harris.

Buddy Spicher is often seen on television and YouTube; he was with the Wilburn Brothers.

Buddy Spicher is active in session work, fiddle camps, and teaching university courses.

Buddy Spicher continues to tutor; and produce, write, and arrange songs.

Buddy Spicher was amazed at how quickly Spicher learned to play it well.

At about age fourteen, Buddy Spicher met by chance Clarence "Tater" Tate in Wheeling, WV.

Tate, himself a professional sideman, was adept at double stops, and Buddy Spicher wanted to learn the technique.

Buddy Spicher began hitchhiking to Wheeling, where Bob Spicher was already working as a guitarist.

Buddy Spicher enjoyed touring for several years with Ray Price as fiddler in Price's band, the Cherokee Cowboys.

Buddy Spicher became a Nashville-based session musician, backing the likes of Bob Dylan.

Buddy Spicher was one of the band members of Area Code 615 with other Nashville sessions musicians and Asleep at the Wheel.

Literally a starving artist, Buddy Spicher inhabited Broadway looking for work.

Buddy Spicher was hired as a regular on the Wilburn Brothers television show.

Slowly he became sought after, and by 1967, working with Tommy Jackson, then Johnny Gimble, and sometimes Grover "Shorty" Lavender, Buddy Spicher was an "A-list" fiddle player; it was a position he maintained for more than ten years.

Buddy Spicher can be heard playing the fiddle on Christian singer Don Francisco's 1977 album Forgiven.

Buddy Spicher is one of the musicians you don't have to worry about.

Buddy Spicher was part of a Grand Ole Opry show, one with Area Code 615, one with Nashville Super Pickers, and one with Eddie Mitchell.

Buddy Spicher formed a Western Swing band which played weekly for eight years at Wolfy's, one of the city's famous night spots.

Buddy Spicher was the fiddler, violinist, and cellist for Area Code 615, a Nashville country rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Buddy Spicher is one of sixteen Nashville Cats featured as part of a Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan exhibit at the Hall.

Buddy Spicher was inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2010.

Buddy Spicher taught fiddlers Billy Contreras, Maggie Estes, Lisa Silver, Dennis Stroughmatt, and Wanda Vick among others; and is collaborating with Estes on a CD.

Buddy Spicher was an adjunct professor at Belmont University in Nashville until December 2016, and has been active in fiddle camps and seminars throughout the US for the past fifteen years.

Buddy Spicher's career is the subject of a 2012 Master in Performing Arts thesis by a Belmont post-graduate student.

Buddy Spicher co-wrote with Jimmy Martin "Goin' Up Dry Branch"; fiddler Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper's version of the song won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Instrumental Recorded Performance prize in 2011.