Fats Kaplin is an American musician, born in
New York City
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. He is best known as a
fiddler. He also plays guitar, button accordion, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, an Arab oud, and a Turkish cümbüş, among others. He has worked with artists such as
Jack White,
[Fats Kaplin & Jack White]
, epiphone.com; accessed July 14, 2015. Trisha Yearwood,
The Tractors,
Nanci Griffith,
Pure Prairie League,
John Prine,
Roy Bookbinder,
Beck
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,
Mitski, and
Tinariwen.
He currently resides in
Nashville, Tennessee
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and is married to musician Kristi Rose.
[Quill, Greg. "Mariposa's pulp faction", ''Toronto Star'', July 8, 2004.] In 2003, he started playing with fellow country artists and Nashville residents
Kieran Kane and
Kevin Welch, as Kane Welch Kaplin.
Discography
*''This Is Pulp Country!'', 2004
[
*''The Fatman Cometh'', 2006]["The Fatman Cometh"]
cmt.com; accessed July 14, 2015.
*''Fats Kaplins' World of Wonder Downunder'', 2009[
*''Waking Hour'', 2011 (David Francy) — fiddle][Irish, Paul. (September 29, 2011). "Music for Hugh's Room or maybe a newsroom", ''Toronto Star'', p. E11]
*'' Morning Phase'', 2014 (Beck) - banjo
With ''Kristi Rose''
*''I Wonder As I Wander'', 2010
With ''Kane Welch Kaplin''
*'' You Can't Save Everybody'', 2004
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American fiddlers
Musicians from New York City
21st-century American violinists
Pure Prairie League members
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