John Hartford once said that Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Mike was born in 1956 in Jimmie Rodger’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi. His great grandfather was a fiddler. Mike was exposed to old-time music at an early age and received his first mandolin at the age of 15. He has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band for two separate stints, and toured and recorded with Hubert Davis & the Season Travelers, John Hartford, and David Grier.  The Nashville Bluegrass Band  has won two Grammy Awards, two Entertainer of the year honors from the International Bluegrass Music Association and four wins as IBMA’s Vocal Group of the Year.

Mike recently received Grammy Award acknowledgement for playing the mandolin on two award winning projects, “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?”, Album of the Year and Best Compilation Soundtrack Album, and “Down From the Mountain”, Best Traditional Folk Album, which included artists such as Dr. Ralph Stanley, Norman and Nancy Blake, Alison Kraus and Union Station, Gillian Welch/David Rawlings, Emmy Lou Harris, The Whites, The Cox Family, The Fairfield Four, Chris Thomas King, NBB, John Hartford, to name a few. He was also part of last year’s sold out “Down From the Mountain” tours which included the original soundtrack cast and Ricky Skaggs, Patty Loveless, the Del McCoury Band, and Rodney Crowell.

Mike was featured prominently on Dr. Ralph Stanley’s recent work produced by recording industry legend T-Bone Burnett. Mike recently participated in the soundtrack for  “Cold Mountain” also produced by Mr. Burnett.

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