As an A-list Nashville session Fiddle player originally from West Virginia, Blaine Sprouse was lucky enough to have the "Father of Bluegrass", , as one of his teachers. He is a protege of and a former member of , 's Midnight Ramblers (James is the son of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe), and . He also has performed with such other first-generation bluegrass artists as , McReynolds, and .