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Byron House

Musician · b. 1959 · Bowling Green, Kentucky
Best known for Bass

Byron House is a Kentucky-born, Nashville-based bassist whose decades of session and tour work with Sam Bush, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Robert Plant's Band of Joy, and the Nashville bluegrass and Americana circles have placed him among the most-recorded acoustic bassists of his generation.

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  • Born July 27, 1959; based in Nashville. Plays both upright and electric bass.
  • Met mandolinist Sam Bush at age 11 in Bowling Green, Kentucky; first played with him in The Duckbutter Blues Band in 1980 and remained Bush's working bassist on and off until 2010.
  • Studied classically at Western Kentucky University and later took lessons with jazz bassist Ron Carter; cites Jaco Pastorius's playing on Joni Mitchell's "Hejira" (1976) as a primary influence.
  • Spent the 1980s in Nashville as a Fairlight CMI programmer in studios while learning the session-musician craft.
  • From 1991 onward recorded and toured with Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Jerry Douglas, Jorma Kaukonen, Patty Griffin, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt, Rodney Crowell, and Nickel Creek.
  • Began a long collaboration with producer Buddy Miller in 1995 ("Your Love and Other Lives"); recruited by Miller in 2010 to record and tour with Robert Plant's Band of Joy (2010–11).
  • Has appeared on bluegrass records by Ron Block of Alison Krauss & Union Station; works extensively in the Krauss-adjacent Nashville bluegrass and Americana circle.
  • Since 2021 has toured and recorded with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken; also a current member of Cosmic Cathedral.

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