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mountain heart non_vocal_instrumentalist fiddle jim van cleve
 jim van cleve
jim van cleve

jim vancleve , born october 12 , 1978 in canton , north carolina is an american fiddle player , songwriter , session musician , and producer .
he is a founding member of the popular band mountain heart , and a grammy winning session musician and grammy nominated solo artist .
vancleve won many fiddle contests as a youth .
while still in high school , vancleve became a member of ric-o-chet and lou reid and carolina , prominent bands in the national bluegrass scene at the time .
in 1997 , bluegrass and gospel legend doyle lawson invited vancleve to join his group , quicksilver .
vancleve left college -lrb- unc-greensboro -rrb- to become the band 's new fiddle player .
in 1998 , banjo player barry abernathy , singer/guitarist steve gulley , and grammy-winning mandolinist -lrb- formerly of alison krauss and union station -rrb- adam steffey began plans to form a band .
vancleve came on board and the band mountain heart was formed .
vancleve has played a major role in the success and popularity of the band , as well as a driving force in creating more complex musical arrangements .
jim has become highly regarded and much sought after both as a session musician and as a record producer in the worlds of country and americana music .
vancleve has quickly built a broad-ranging and artistically acclaimed body of production work .
a partial list of projects vancleve has produced : mountain heart - that just happened '' -lrb- earned a 4 star review from country music weekly magazine in 2011 -rrb- '' jim vancleve - no apologies '' -lrb- grammy nominated , indie roots americana album of the year -rrb- '' at the speed of bluegrass - bluegrass blog theme '' -lrb- commissioned theme song for the world 's most heavily traveled acoustic music website -rrb- '' ibma awards show theme song - '' -lrb- commissioned theme for the international bluegrass music awards show -rrb- '' mountain heart - road that never ends monroeville - monroeville ben & rose - self titled del shields - let the cowboy sing '' -lrb- host of best of america by horseback , a top rated television show on the rfd network -rrb- '' newfound road - same old place carrie hassler & hard rain - chhr 2 acoustic evolution - bluegrass goes back to the future '' -lrb- exclusive americana compilation for borders books and music -rrb- '' carrie hassler & hard rain - self titled mashville brigade - smash hits of bluegrass , vol .
1 tribute to taylor swift - pickin ' on taylor swift - cmh clay jones - mountain tradition on may 9 , 2006 , vancleve released his first solo recording , `` no apologies . ''
the album won rave reviews and an uncommon amount of press attention .
the awards nominations for `` no apologies '' were many .
the lead track , `` nature of the beast '' , was nominated for a grammy award in 2006 for `` best country instrumental performance '' .
the first single from the album , let the big dog eat , was the no. 1 song in bluegrass unlimited magazine for three months .
the album topped out at number 5 in the `` billboard '' bluegrass sales chart .
the project won `` album of the year '' in the folk category of the indie awards .
the album was nominated for `` instrumental project of the year '' in 2007 at the international bluegrass music association -lrb- ibma -rrb- awards .
jim was also nominated for `` fiddle player of the year '' in 2007 for his work on `` no apologies '' , and the many other recordings he played a part in that year .
* in 2008 , vancleve was recruited to write and record a new awards show theme song by the ibma -lrb- an honor previously held by the 12-time grammy winner , jerry douglas , and nashville recording legend , mark o'connor before him -rrb- .
the new theme song , `` road from rosine '' was debuted at the 2007 ibma awards show at the ryman auditorium in nashville .
jim was recruited to write an instrumental track for a studio project by sierra hull , the young mandolin and vocal prodigy seen on television , either sitting in with alison krauss , or as an actress in the new billy graham movie .
ron block -lrb- of alison krauss and union station -rrb- , and sierra produced her debut solo project and commissioned jim to write the song , which eventually was entitled smashville .
sierra 's album , secrets , is now available on rounder records .
