Charlie Cline

Charlie Cline was among the premiere back-up music artists in bluegrass. He was created and raised within the Gilbert Creek area of Western world Virginia, so when a youngsters, he sometimes sat along with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, who have been comprised of his two old brothers, Ireland and Curly Ray, and his cousin Ezra. The Fiddlers have been showing up daily on an area radio train station since around 1938, so when Ireland was wiped out during World Battle II, Cline, at that time an achieved multi-instrumentalist, became a normal in the music group. In early 1950, he and Curly Ray became a member of the Sunny Hill Boys; another summer, they produced their debut recordings. Following a brief go back to the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Cline continued to join Expenses Monroe’s Bluegrass Young boys in 1952. He documented 38 tracks with Monroe’s music group for Decca through 1955, attempting his hands at every device except the mandolin. He came back to his family members group in 1953, which started playing on the air in Detroit and in addition recorded some singles. In 1954, he performed lead acoustic guitar for the Stanley Brothers, documented another album using the Fiddlers, and was also a sideman using the Osborne Brothers throughout their live shows. In the past due ’50s, Cline and his wife Lee brought electrical guitars and bass towards the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, motivating them to look at a more contemporary sound. The next year, the few became evangelical Christians and remaining music to go to Alabama and preach. Within the middle-’70s, he re-formed the Fiddlers and documented an unbiased gospel album entitled One of is own Own. The brand new music group was made up of Cline on fiddle and mandolin, wife Lee on electrical bass, banjo participant Chuck Carpenter, and guitarist Ed Wilson. The group consequently recorded several albums; one, Why Ray, Ralph? presented parodies of his sibling Curly Ray’s works together with Ralph Stanley. Through the early ’80s, Cline rejoined the Sunny Hill Young boys and toured the bluegrass event circuit. In 1986, he shifted to the Warrior River Young boys like a fiddler and mandolin participant, and also documented a single fiddle recording. Cline continued operating and occasionally documenting using the Fiddlers.