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    • Apr 25, 1928
    Fiddler Vassar Clements is born in Kinard, South Carolina. He gains five Grammy nominations while playing everything from bluegrass to jazz, including an appearance on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's classic "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
    Feb 3, 1950
    Bill Monroe holds his first recording session for Decca Records in Nashville at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. For the first time, his studio musicians include vocalist/guitarist Jimmy Martin and fiddler Vassar Clements
    Sep 16, 1955
    Bill Monroe holds a recording session in Nashville using three fiddlers: Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks and Gordon Terry. It marks the first of 31 sessions in which he employs his mistress, Bessie Lee Mauldin, on bass
    Aug 9, 1971
    Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Jimmy Martin and Vassar Clements join The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Nashville's Woodland Sound on recording sessions for the album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." The day's material includes "Soldier's Joy," "You Are My Flower" and "Earl's Breakdown"
    Aug 11, 1971
    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band records with Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Randy Scruggs, Vassar Clements and Merle Travis at Nashville's Woodland Sound. The day's output includes the title track for the album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
    Aug 12, 1971
    Earl Scruggs holds an all-star recording session in Nashville, recording "I Saw The Light" with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Linda Ronstadt, plus Gary, Steve and Randy Scruggs; Vassar Clements; and Norman Blake
    Aug 12, 1971
    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band records "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" at Woodland Sound in Nashville with bass player Junior Huskey and fiddler Vassar Clements as work continues on the landmark three-record album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
    Aug 13, 1971
    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band enlists Randy Scruggs, Vassar Clements, Norman Blake and Junior Huskey to record at Nashville's Woodland Sound Studio for the album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." They cut "Togary Mountain" and "Honky Tonkin'"
    Aug 14, 1971
    The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concludes recording for the album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" at Woodland Sound Studio in Nashville with fiddler Vassar Clements and bass player Junior Huskey
    Oct 2, 1972
    United Artists releases The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." The project features Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Vassar Clements, Junior Huskey, Norman Blake and Bashful Brother Oswald
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