Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician. He was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music.  Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin. He is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays the guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello.

He has released more than ten studio albums, in addition to charting a duet with Kathy Mattea entitled "The Battle Hymn of Love", a No. 9 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1990. In November 2013 he was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.

Tim O'Brien was born on March 16, 1954, and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, the youngest in a family of five children. At the age of 12, he first heard a Bob Dylan record, played by his older sister Mollie, afterwards deciding to take up music.  Throughout his teens, he taught himself to play guitar, violin, and mandolin.

O'Brien started his own record label, Howdy Skies Records, in 1999.

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