Robert Bowlin

Country musician Robert Bowlin began playing the ukulele at the age of one-and-a-half, and was playing the guitar at five. By the late 1970s, he was competing successfully in national flatpicking championships; he also picked up the fiddle along the way. His lengthy and successful career as a backup musician has included steady stage work with Bobby Bare, Tom T. Hall, Kathy Mattea, Bill Monroe, Maura O'Connell, the Osborne Brothers, Ray Price, Ricky Van Shelton, and Faron Young. In Nashville, he became a regular session musician, appearing on albums by Hall, Monroe, the Osborn...