Buddy Spicher

Spicher was the fiddler, violinist, and cellist for Area Code 615, a Nashville country rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The band's "Trip in the Country" album was a top-five finalist for a Grammy award in 1970, in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance category.

In 2008, he was named as one of the "Nashville Cats", a designation given by the Country Music Hall of Fame to musicians important in country music history. The Nashville Cats honor, held in the Country Music Hall of Fame's Ford Theater, involves a two-hour program highlighting Spicher's career accomplishments. He is one of sixteen Nashville Cats featured as part of a Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan exhibit at the Hall. As Stephen Betts writes in the October 14, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, the exhibit highlights the work of the Cats with famous artists in genres other than country.

He was inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2010. Its website states that Spicher has played on more recordings than any other fiddler.

He co-wrote with Jimmy Martin "Goin' Up Dry Branch"; fiddler Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper's version of the song won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Instrumental Recorded Performance prize in 2011.

Nashville writer and Source Award Winner Ruth White, who booked thousands of sessions from 1947 until 1990, said in a 2012 interview: "All master session musicians are capable. They never ask questions. Spicher is one of the musicians you don't have to worry about. He knows instinctively what to do."

He, Cleveland and banjoist Alison Brown collaborated with Grammy-nominated bluegrass band The Special Consensus on John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy". The version won Best Instrumental Recorded Performance prize from IBMA in 2014.