Effective period / Period of releases: 1989 - 1992

As an A-list Nashville session Fiddle player originally from West Virginia, Blaine Sprouse was lucky enough to have the "Father of Bluegrass", Bill Monroe, as one of his teachers. He is a protege of Kenny Baker and a former member of , James Monroe's Midnight Ramblers (James is the son of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe), and The Johnson Mountain Boys. He also has performed with such other first-generation bluegrass artists as Charlie Louvin, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, and The Osbourne Brothers.