Jason Carter

b. 1 February 1973, Ashland, Kentucky, USA. Carter started out playing guitar and mandolin, but later switched to fiddle. This change was precipitated through seeing Del McCoury's band on television and then attending a festival in Kentucky where the band was playing. Fired with the ambition to play with McCoury, he made the instrumental switch because the band already had a guitarist and mandolinist in its ranks. It took two years before he was up to the required standard, joining McCoury in 1992. Through spending more than a decade with the McCoury band, he became popular in...