Bobby Hicks

Fiddler, Composer

1933 –

31

Who is Bobby Hicks?

Bobby Hicks is a Grammy Award winning American bluegrass fiddler and a professional musician with more than fifty years of experience.

Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina and learned to play the fiddle before he was 9 years old. He attended several fiddlers conventions and at the age of eleven, he won the "North Carolina State Championship" playing the tune "Black Mountain Rag". He joined Jim Eanes band in the early fifties. In 1953, he was, through the bluegrass festivals arranger Carlton Haney, hired as a bass player in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He did not record with the Bluegrass Boys until December 31, 1954, by then he had switched to fiddle. During this period, he learned to play "Nashville swing" by the session fiddler Dale Potter, a style Hicks often used when playing with Bill Monroe on the road. Monroe dubbed Hicks "the truest fiddler he had ever heard". He recorded seven tunes with Monroe but had to quit in 1956 to join the army. In 1958, after his discharge, he rejoined the Bluegrass Boys, recording ten more songs. He left in 1959 to join Porter Wagoner.

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Born
Jul 21, 1933
Newton
Also known as
  • Hicks, Bobby
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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