ADAM STEFFEY
- From Johnson City, Tennessee.
- Inspired to play mandolin by the Lost and Found’s Dempsey Young.
- First band (on graduation from high school) The Boys in the Band (Kingsport, Tennessee).
- 1987, joined the Lonesome River Band.
- 1989-1991, formed Dusty Miller (with Tim Stafford and Barry Bales).
- 1992-2000, joined Alison Krauss and Union Station (as did Stafford and Bales).
- 2000, co-founded Mountain Heart, but left shortly thereafter to tour and record with the Isaacs.
- 2001, re-joined Mountain Heart.
- 2001, released his first solo album Grateful
(Mountain Home).
- As a studio musician and sideman, he has recorded and performed with Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Randy Travis, the Dixie Chicks, many others.
- 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 won the IBMA Award for Mandolin Player of the Year.
- 2007, left Mountain Heart, joined the Dan Tyminski Band.
- 2009, released One More for the Road
album (Sugar Hill).
- 2009, formed (with Ronnie Stewart) The Boxcars.
- 2010, won the IBMA Award for Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year (for “Durang’s Hornpipe”)
- 2013, released album New Primitive
(Mountain Home) with his wife Tina playing clawhammer banjo.
- 2015, had surgery (“Subcutaneous Ulnar Nerve Transposition”) on his elbow to relieve pain in his left hand.
- 2018, formed the Highland Travelers with other members of the Boxcars (disbanded in 2017) and Ramblers Choice (disbanded in 2017)
- 2018, decided to take a leave from the music business. The Highland Travelers disbanded.
- 2019, joined Volume Five.