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Bobby Hicks
12+ albums
bluegrasscountryrockabillyUSAfiddle
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There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Bobby Hicks was a Grammy Award-winning American bluegrass fiddler. 2) Bobby Hicks was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Florida; 3) Bobby Hicks was an American hard rock vocalist with Mystic‐Force. 1) Bobby Hicks (born Robert Caldwell Hicks in Newton, North Carolina on 21 July 1933; died 16 August 2024 ) was a Grammy Award-winning American bluegrass fiddler remembered for his more than fifty years of fiddle experience including 23 years with Ricky Skaggs,. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017. Hicks learnt 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.
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Fiddle Patch
Texas Crapshooter
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The Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3: California Connection
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CLCD 4446 Rockin' Acetates
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Bluegrass Number 1's
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True Bluegrass Fiddle
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The Bluegrass Album
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With Body And Soul: A Bluegrass Tribute to Bill Monroe
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Rockin' Acetates
The Bluegrass Compact Disc, Volume 2
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Johnny Haven
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Ultra Rare Rockabilly's, Vol. 12