Mandolin player David Grisman pays tribute to fiddle great Vassar Clements, who died this week at 77. Grisman says Clements was a Nashville virtuoso and "one of the architects of bluegrass." Vassar ...

That Vassar Clements was a musician who bridged gaps instead of burning bridges and an artist whose truly massive body of work is characterized by inclusion was instantly apparent when the ...

Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of others, died at his home Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 77. Clements was ...

Vassar Clements, a virtuoso fiddle player who transcended genres and influenced generations of bluegrass musicians, died of lung cancer Aug. 16 at his home outside Nashville. He was 77. A self-taught ...

It was 1977 or so when I first heard Vassar Clements play. As a suburban Yankee teenager, I turned up my nose at "hillbilly" music, until I heard the eponymous debut of Old & In the Way, a short-lived ...

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Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of others, died at his home in National, Tenn., on Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of other music legends, died at his home Tuesday after battling lung cancer ...

Fiddle virtuoso Vassar Clements, an A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and other notables, died at his Nashville area home Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 77. He ...

I can't pinpoint the exact moment in my childhood when I realized I actually liked country music, but it might have happened when I heard the fiddle virtuoso Vassar Clements making a cameo on my dad's ...

Fiddler Vassar Clements grew up in Kissimmee, Florida, listening to big-band jazz at local dance halls and to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. In the mid-40s he was captivated by Chubby Wise, whose ...