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Byron Berline, master of the bluegrass fiddle, dies at 77
Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who expanded the vocabulary of his instrument while also establishing it as an integral voice in country-rock on recordings by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and others, died Saturday in Oklahoma City. He was 77.
by Associated Press
Jul. 13 2021 @ 8:53pm
Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who expanded the vocabulary of his instrument while also establishing it as an integral voice in country-rock on recordings by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and others, died Saturday in Oklahoma City. He was 77.
His death, in a rehabilitation hospital after a series of strokes, was confirmed by his nephew Barry Patton.
Byron Berline performs at the Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival in 2018.
Oklahoma fiddle player Byron Berline died on Saturday following complications from a stroke. He was 77.
Berline was born in Caldwell, Kansas, but raised in Grant County in northern Oklahoma. The three-time national fiddle champion performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Grand Ole Opry, and toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, Australia and northern Africa.
Berline was a member of The Dillards, Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, Country Gazette, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Sundance and more.
He was also a prolific session musician, recording hundreds of songs with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, James Taylor, Emmylou Harris and The Byrds, among others.
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