JAMES ALAN SHELTON
- From Gate City, Virginia. Made his home in Church Hill, Tennessee.
- Played guitar with such bands as the Bluegrass Travelers, the Larkin Brothers, the Southern Grass and Flint Hill before joining Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys in 1994. He also served as the band’s road manager.
- He emulated the guitar style of his musical hero George Shuffler (lead guitarist with the Stanley Brothers).
- 1996, released Blue in the Blue Ridge
album (Freeland).
- 1998, released Clinch Mountain Guitar
album (Freeland).
- 1999, released Standing Room Only
album (Freeland).
- 2002, released Songs for Greta
album (Rebel).
- 2004, released Half Moon Bay
album (Rebel).
- 2007, released Walking Down the Line
album (Sheltone).
- 2010, released Where I’m Bound
album (Sheltone).
- When not on the road, he made hand-tooled, customised leather instrument straps, for guitar, banjo, and mandolin.
- 2014, died of cancer at the age of 53.