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Bass
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Harold Nixon's Pages
Harold
Nixon was born in September of
1981 in the central Kentucky town of Winchester. At the age
of eleven he started playing the bass in the middle school
orchestra. Harold began taking private lessons about one year
after he started. Later that year he heard a group of
musicians performing bluegrass music in Mount Sterling
Kentucky. From that time on he was hooked.
He continued to play in the school
orchestra through high school while practicing bluegrass at
home. While in high school he began performing fill-in shows
with several different artist at local venues. The first band
Harold had the pleasure of working with was John Cosby & the
Bluegrass Drifters. Over the next few years he worked with
such artists as Sam Wilson, Wendy Miller, Mike Lilly, Billie Renee
& Cumberland Gap, Unlimited Tradition, Dean Osborne &
Bluetowne, Richard Bennett, Mike Aldridge, Jimmy Gaudreau, and many
more.
Then in early 2002 he came to work with
JD Crowe & the Newsouth. Since then he has had the
opportunity to perform and record with many of the top professionals in
the bluegrass field.
Some of Harold’s musical influences have
been- Randall Barnes, Barry Bales, Marshall Wilborn, Mike Bub, Ben
Isaacs, Ron Stewart, Mike Anglin, and countless others both
locally and nationally.
-Rebecca Kent