Buddy Spicher is an American country music fiddle player. He is a member of The Nashville A-Team of session musicians, and is Grammy-nominated. He was nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year by CMA in 1983 and 1985. He was the first fiddler in the "Nashville Cats" series of the Country Music Hall of Fame. By age sixteen, Spicher was playing professionally with Dusty Owens on the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, WV. In Nashville in the late fifties he was with the backing band for Audrey Williams, the widow of Hank Williams, later with Hank Snow, Ray Price, and the Charles River Valley Boys. Spicher became a Nashville-based session musician, backing the likes of Bob Dylan. He was also one of the band members of Area Code 615 with other Nashville sessions musicians and Asleep at the Wheel. Buddy can be heard playing the fiddle on Christian singer Don Francisco's 1977 album Forgiven. Most of the tracks feature the fiddle, including the Dove-award winning ?He's Alive?. 

July 28th, 1938 in DuBois (Age 86)