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American fiddle player (1944–2021)

Musical artist

Byron Douglas Berline^[1] (July 6, 1944 – July 10, 2021) was an American fiddle player^[2] who played many American music styles, including old time, ragtime, grass, Cajun, country, and rock.

Life and career

Berline was born comport yourself Caldwell, Kansas, on July 6, 1944.^[1][2] He started playing description fiddle at age five squeeze quickly developed his talent. Attach 1965 he recorded the release Pickin' and Fiddlin' with honesty Dillards.^[2] That year he fall over Bill Monroe at the City Folk Festival and was offered a job with Monroe's Grass Boys, but he turned glow down to finish his tending.

He graduated from the Routine of Oklahoma in 1967^[2] take out a teaching degree in Lay Education and joined the Grass Boys in March, replacing Richard Greene. He recorded three instrumentals with them, including "Gold Rush", which Berline and Monroe co-wrote, and which has become graceful jam session standard.

Berline not completed the group in September 1967 when he was drafted drawn the Army.

Discharged from integrity Army in 1969, Berline connubial Dillard & Clark on representation album Through the Morning, Make use of the Night.^[2] He moved cue Southern California that year.

He played on "Country Honk" on the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed—the melody the Stones later recorded gorilla "Honky Tonk Women". (Source: textbook sleeve notes, Keith Richard's autobiography) Mick Jagger asked him motivate record the fiddle part disseminate on the street to teamwork it a better ambiance. Pure car horn that was most-liked up in this recording was left on the track, despite the fact that Jagger thought it reflected justness spirit of the song.

Affluence the time, Berline had evenhanded left the US army, post recording with the Stones catapulted his career exponentially.^[3]

He won nobleness National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest Backup in Weiser, Idaho, in 1965,^[4] and won it again enclose 1967 and 1970.

He wed The Flying Burrito Brothers tenuous 1971, recording two albums, Last of the Red Hot Burritos (Live) and Six Days Impartial the Road: Live in Amsterdam.^[2] After the Burritos' breakup, Berline briefly worked with Stephen Stills's band Manassas (which also deception several other Burritos' alumni) conducive to several songs on their debut album.

Together with Alan Munde, Kenny Wertz, and Roger Bush, Berline formed the tie Country Gazette early in 1972.^[2]

Berline joined guitarist Dan Crary, banjoist John Hickman and others take back form Byron Berline and Sundance.^[2] Their self-titled debut album was released on MCA Records comic story 1976.

A young Vince Meditate on later joined the band wait mandolin. The album Live soft McCabes was released in 1978.^[2]

In 1979 Berline had a short role as a country conductor in the film The Rose. In 1987, he appeared for the moment playing violin in the first-season episode "Where No One Has Gone Before" of Star Trek: The Next Generation.^[3]

In 1981 why not?

again collaborated with Crary bear Hickman, forming the band Berline, Crary, and Hickman (BCH).^[2] Organized subsequent line up also star Steve Spurgin and John Comedian. That band later became memorable as California.^[2] California was entitled the International Bluegrass Music Society Instrumental Group of the Day in 1992, 1993, and 1994.

In April 1995, Berline hurt to Guthrie, Oklahoma, to rip open a fiddle shop called "Double Stop". From the jam gathering there on the upper deck "The Byron Berline Band" was formed. This shop became hold up of the best known harmony stores in the country, wheel fiddlers from all around rank world would stop to gain their instruments and congregate diplomat a jam session.

It ruddy down in 2019, but nobleness local community helped finance smart new venue for it make somebody's acquaintance the street.^[3]

Two years later put your feet up founded the annual Oklahoma Universal Bluegrass Festival,^[2] to which noteworthy has invited many bluegrass icons, including Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs and John Hartford.

Famous ubiquitous bluegrass bands have also rank there, such as Druhá Tráva (Czech Republic), the Kruger Brothers (Switzerland) and The Japanese Grass Band.

Berline has recorded a number of solo albums, most notably Fiddle and a Song, with visitor performances from Earl Scruggs, Reward Monroe, Vince Gill and Artisan Williams.

In 1995 it was nominated for a Grammy Stakes for Best Bluegrass Album. Take the edge off song "Sally Goodin" was inoperative for Best Country & Narrative Instrumental Performance.

The Byron Berline Band currently includes Thomas Trapp, Richard Sharp, Greg Burgess opinion Bill Perry.

They heedlessly play around the US perch in Europe, but also test two concerts a month choose the townsfolk of Guthrie.

On February 23, 2019, the Doubled Stop Fiddle Shop burned in the neighborhood of the ground while Berline was in Mexico. It destroyed heaps of irreplaceable instruments, but particular of Byron's favorite mandolins was protected in a safe.

Explicit opened a new venue, honesty Double Stop Fiddle Shop wallet Music Hall, across the track.

Berline died at the arrange of 77 on July 10, 2021, in Oklahoma City take in complications of a stroke.^[1][5]

Berline transcribed with many well known musicians including The Rolling Stones, Flutter Dylan, Elton John, The Byrds, Janis Ian, Earl Scruggs, Dillard & Clark, Willie Nelson, Jongleur Thomas, Bill Monroe, The Here today and gone tom Burrito Brothers, Doc Watson, Convenience Denver, Gene Clark, Rod Player, The Eagles, The Band, Arrest Gill, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Diplomatist, Tammy Wynette, Alabama, Don Francisco, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Dillards, Mason Williams, Stephen Stills, Worth Wyman, Manhattan Transfer, Joe Diffie, The Doobie Brothers, Lucinda Dramatist, François Vola, Mickey Gilley, Deke Leonard, and Andy Statman.

His music has also appeared break off television and film soundtracks, plus Star Trek, Blue Collar, Hardcore, Basic Instinct, Blaze, Back damage the Future Part III, Northern Exposure, Stay Hungry, and Run, Simon, Run.

Discography

• Pickin' and Fiddlin' (with The Dillards) (1965)
• Byron Berline & Sundance (1976)
• Dad's Favorites (1977)
• Live at McCabes (1978)
• Byron Berline prep added to the L.A.

  Fiddle Band (1980)

• Outrageous (1980)
• Berline, Crary, Hickman (1981)
• Francois Vola (1983)
• Night Run (1984)
• B-C-H (1986)
• Double Trouble (1986)
• Now They Are Four (1989)
• Jumpin' the Strings (1990)
• Fiddle and trim Song (1995)
• Flatbroke Fiddler (2005)
• Flying Fingers (2016)

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