Shayne Bartley ♦ Mandolin, Guitar, Vocals
Shayne Bartley
Image Credit: Courtesy The Bartley Brothers
Full Name: Shayne Bartley
Years Active: '90s -
Instruments: Mandolin, Guitar, Vocals
Web Site: The Bartley Brothers (MySpace)
Shayne Bartley Biography
Shayne Bartley, plays mandolin and sings lead and harmony vocals, has the been an in-demand musicians in the last 25 years, having worked with some of the top acts in Bluegrass Music.
Shayne started learning to play at the feet of his older brother Rick and his dad Roger. At the age of 16, he took the stage as a part of his brothers band Newground, playing guitar.
In 1984 at the Festival of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY, Shayne Bartley met Don Rigsby and formed a life long friendship and musical kinship. Shayne joined Don and Johnnie Lewis in a band called The True Grass Band. All three have gone on to make their mark in the Bluegrass world.
In 1986, he took his first full-time road gig, playing mandolin with Dave Evans. After two years with Dave, Bartley moved on to play mandolin for The Charlie Sizemore band for a year when The Lost and Found came calling to replace Ronnie Bowman as guitar player and lead vocalist.
After two years of living in Virginia, Shayne was ready to move back to Kentucky. He then resumed his position as mandolin player with The Charlie Sizemore Band until the fall of 1993, when he joined Rickey Wasson and Wayne Fields in the highly acclaimed band Southern Blend. Shayne Bartley stayed with Southern Blend until the band stopped touring.
Shayne Bartley then went to work with Unlimited Tradition, a band of young veteran musicians and singers including Ray Craft, banjo great Jack Hicks, and Scottie Sparks. UT won the SPBGMA International Band Championship in Nashville in 1996, and signed a recording contract with Tim Austin’s Doobie Shea Records. Their Doobie Shea release “She’s Gone” got rave reviews and the band was heralded as the hottest thing to come along since the Johnson Mountain Boys. Since UT disbanded in 2000,
Shayne Bartley has worked with Rarely Herd, David Peterson and 1946, Karl Shiflett, filled in with both JD Crowe’s New South and Wildfire, and was part of Country Music super stars Brooks and Dunn’s 2003 Neon Circus tour.
Shayne was a featured artist on the 2006 IBMA Album of the year, ” Celebration of Life Musicians Against Childhood Cancer”.
- Biography Courtesy The Bartley Brothers
