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Name: Tim Stafford
Group: Blue Highway
Date: Saturday May 5th, 2007
Time: 1:00pm EST
Website: www.tim-stafford.com
Interviewer: Gracie Muldoon
Description:
A native of Kingsport, Tennessee, Tim began playing guitar seriously at the age of 18 after starting out on the banjo four years earlier. He played with various groups in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee as a teenager, including Mountain Memories. As a member of Kingsport's Boys in the Band, he was a judge at the 1980 National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield Kansas. Later, he helped found the band Dusty Miller, which was named SPBGMA International Bluegrass Band champions in 1990. A few months later he joined Alison Krauss and Union Station, along with Adam Steffey and Barry Bales. The band was named IBMA Entertainer of the Year in 1991. He left Krauss's band in May 1992 in order to spend more time with his son Daniel, who was born in January of that year. Tim won a Grammy in January 1993 for his work on “Every Time You Say Goodbye” (Rounder, 1992). In 1994, he organized the group Blue Highway, whose first project, “It’s a Long, Long Road,” spent six months at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited charts and went on to win IBMA’s Album of the Year Award (1996). The band has also been awarded Emerging Artist of the Year (1996) and Gospel Recording of the Year (1997). The band’s project on Ricky Skaggs's Ceili Music label, “Blue Highway,” spent two months at #1 on the Bluegrass Now charts. Blue Highway's gospel recording, 'Wondrous Love' (2003) was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album category. 'Wondrous Love' won the Dove Award in 2004 for Best Bluegrass Recording. Tim’s songs have been recorded by Ronnie Bowman, Claire Lynch, Mountain Heart, Dan Tyminski, Jim Hurst, Mark Newton, Scottie Sparks and the Lonesome River Band, in addition to Blue Highway. "Born With A Hammer in my Hand" by Tim and Shawn Lane, was nominated for song of the year at the 2000 IBMA Awards. At the 2001 IBMA Awards, Tim was honored as producer and performer on “Knee Deep in Bluegrass: The Acutab Sessions,” which won Instrumental Recording of the Year. His rhythmic guitar style, song writing and arranging contributions are an integral part of the Blue Highway sound. FGM Records released his critically-acclaimed solo record, Endless Line, in 2004. For more, see www.tim-stafford.com |
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