How We Came To Be...
• Blake Johnson
Blake Johnson, from Roxboro, NC, plays the acoustic bass. He started playing the guitar and piano at the age of five with his family in church.
• Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson from Roxboro, NC plays the guitar. He grew up in Turbeville, VA where he started playing the guitar at age six. Mike joined his first band when he was twelve and has been playing anything from Southern Gospel music to Bluegrass music. He started playing the piano at age fifteen for The Harmony Believers, a southern gospel group. At nineteen, he toured from coast to coast with Lower Forty Grass.
• Cliff Smith
Cliff Smith, From Virgilina, VA, plays the banjo. At the age of five, he started playing the guitar; at eight, he began playing the bass and at the age of twelve, he picked up the banjo and the fiddle.
• David Nance
David Nance, Born in Oak Ridge NC, now lives in Reidsville NC with his two children, Jordan and Chandler. David started playing the Dobro with his family when he was five years old. He played with several groups while still in Jr. High School and first recorded with ex Bill Monroe banjo player Bobby Atkins and the Countrymen when he was only 14 years old. He then joined, and traveled with, the McPherson Brother's band with his father Clyde and a few years later he left the band to join a new group, Big Sandy Bluegrass based out of Roxboro, NC. This band was fairly successful in a lot of individual and band competitions and band won second place in the Marlboro band competition behind country group Shenandoah.