Buddy Spicher
| Buddy Spicher | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Norman Keith Spicher |
| Born |
July 28, 1938 DuBois, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation(s) | Fiddle Player |
| Years active | 1954–present |
| Labels | Various |
| Website | buddyspicher |
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, Johnny Paycheck 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.
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