Glade City Rounders

Hailing from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Glade City Rounders formed their band out of a love of old recordings. They adopted the traditional southern string band, blues, and jug band music. Their musical style is strongly influenced by musicians from the state of Tennessee, as well as from Louisville all the way to the Mississippi River Delta. Each member contributes their own element to create a live show that is truly unique.

William "Tennessee Bill" See was raised in the Middle Tennessee old-time music tradition. He is an award winning traditional fiddler and banjo player.

Josh Smith is an old-time roots musician whose specialties include flatpick guitar, claw-hammer banjo, and "jugging." (Jugging is a type of instrumentation using a jug to blow air across the opening.) He has studied and performed with some of the regions' most well-known old-time musicians. His "jugging" is considered second to none.

Richard "Squirrel" McLain is one of the most skilled and unique performers in the modern day old-time scene. His award winning archaic, almost lost, style of banjo playing is known as the upstroke. His vaudevillian style of singing is eerily reminiscent of Uncle Dave Macon, Stringbean, or Grandpa Jones.

Together, the trio forms a sound that is original, yet familiar. When this band takes off on a tune, you can bet there will not be a still foot in the audience.