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Buddy Spicher (born July 28, 1938 in DuBois, Pennsylvania; pronounced “Spiker”) is an American country music fiddle player. He is a member of The Nashville A-Team of session musicians, and is Grammy-nominated. He was nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year by CMA in 1983 and 1985. He was the first fiddler in the "Nashville Cats" series of the Country Music Hall of Fame (August, 2008). He recorded with virtually every major country star of the sixties, seventies, and early eighties, including Faron Young, Little Jimmy Dickens, Reba McEntire, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, Ray Price, Willie Nelson, George Strait ("Amarillo by Morning"), Bill Monroe, and Emmy Lou Harris. Versatile, he recorded with Elvis Presley, Gary Burton, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Monkees, Linda Ronstadt ("Long Long Time"), Ray Charles, Henry Mancini, Dan Fogelberg, The Statler Brothers, The Happy Goodman Family, Neil Young and The Lewis Family. He is often seen on television and YouTube; he was with the Wilburn Brothers. He is active in session work, fiddle camps, and teaching university courses. He continues to tutor; and produce, write, and arrange songs. "Since 1958, (Spicher ) played his first Nashville recording session, he has been the most versatile fiddler of all time. From Bluegrass to Classical to Jazz, He has covered it all as a professional; and has been a wonderful inspiration to me. Please make welcome to the stage the great Buddy Spicher" -- 〔Mark O'Connor, "American Music Shop" TV show -- 1993 from O'Connor's ''Heroes'' duets album Sadness/Darlin' waltz〕 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqGj0zupwxc During his career of more than fifty years, he has been known for double stops and playing harmony in twin fiddle work.〔Matt Glazer -- a teacher at Berklee in Boston〕 ==Early Years== Spicher's older brother Bob, a semi-professional guitarist, started as a fiddle player and one day about 1949 showed Spicher how to play "Boil 'em Cabbage Down". He was amazed at how quickly Spicher learned to play it well. Country music pervaded the mountain towns around Dubois. Both uncles on his mother's side played fiddle, and Spicher first chorded on guitar. But fiddle quickly became his passion. By age thirteen, he was playing with local bands on radio station WCED. (He used a fiddle borrowed from his girlfriend's father.) The same year, early employer Dusty Owens was headlining on WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia. At about age fourteen, Spicher met by chance Clarence "Tater" Tate in Wheeling, WV. Tate, himself a professional sideman, was adept at double stops, and Spicher wanted to learn the technique. He also began hitchhiking to Wheeling, where Bob Spicher was already working as a guitarist. By age sixteen, Spicher was playing professionally with Dusty Owens on the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, WV. In Nashville in the late fifties he was with the backing band for Audrey Williams, the widow of Hank Williams, later with Hank Snow, and the Charles River Valley Boys. He enjoyed touring for several years with Ray Price as fiddler in Price's band, the Cherokee Cowboys. Spicher became a Nashville-based session musician, backing the likes of Bob Dylan.〔(CMT article )〕 He was also one of the band members of Area Code 615 with other Nashville sessions musicians and Asleep at the Wheel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buddy Spicher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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