Johnny Warren
Musician · Nashville, Tennessee
Best known for
Fiddle
Johnny Warren is a Nashville fiddler best known as a founding member of the Earls of Leicester — the Jerry Douglas-led Flatt and Scruggs tribute that won the 2015 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. The son of Foggy Mountain Boys fiddler Paul Warren, he carries his father's repertoire and tone forward.
- Son of legendary bluegrass fiddler Paul Warren of Flatt and Scruggs's Foggy Mountain Boys and later Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass.
- Founding fiddler of the Earls of Leicester, joining at the band's 2013 formation.
- The Earls of Leicester won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album at the 57th Grammys in 2015.
- Recorded the tribute albums "A Tribute to Fiddlin' Paul Warren" Vol. 1 (2010) and Vol. 2 (2011) with banjo player Charlie Cushman.
- Released the duo album "Purely Instrumental" with Charlie Cushman in 2015.
- Re-recorded a collection of his late father's repertoire in his own fiddle style as a tribute project.
- Works as a golf professional in addition to his music career, having begun teaching golf in 1975.
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The Earls of LeicesterPlayed on recordings with The Earls of Leicester