Ron Block
Ronald Franklin "Ron" Block (born July 30, 1964, Age 51 years) is an American bluegrass and alternative country musician, mainly playing the banjo and the guitar, singing, and writing bluegrass music. He has been awarded 14 Grammys, 6 International Bluegrass Awards, and a CMA Award.
Biography
Banjoist, guitarist, and vocalist Ron Block has devoted more than 30 years to playing music. After teen years spent in local bands, he spent about four years during the late '80s with the group Weary Hearts, of which he was a founding member, and a bit of time early the following decade with the Lynn Morris Band. Since joining Alison Krauss & Union Station in 1991, Block has provided banjo, lead and rhythm guitar, and harmony and lead vocals for the band’s recordings and live shows.
Block has also written enduring and lovely songs frequently concerned with the topic of faith for Alison Krauss & Union Station – songs like A Living Prayer, There is a Reason, and In the Palm of Your Hand. Among the other artists who have recorded Block's songs are Michael W. Smith, Randy Travis, Rhonda Vincent, the Forbes Family, fellow Union Station member Dan Tyminski, and the Cox Family. Block has lent his instrumental talents to recordings by Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Kate Rusby, Clint Black, Little Big Town, Susan Ashton, Brad Paisley, Billy Dean, and Bill Frisell, and many others.