Fats Kaplin is an American musician, born in New York City. He is best known as a fiddler. He also plays guitar, button accordion, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, an Arab oud, and a Turkish cümbüş, among others. He has worked with artists such as Jack White,Fats Kaplin & Jack White , epiphone.com; accessed July 14, 2015. Trisha Yearwood, The Tractors, Nanci Griffith, Pure Prairie League, John Prine, Roy Book Binder, Beck, Mitski, and Tinariwen.
He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and is married to musician Kristi Rose.Quill, Greg. "Mariposa's pulp faction", Toronto Star, July 8, 2004. In 2003, he started playing with fellow country artists and Nashville residents Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch, as Kane Welch Kaplin.
Discography This Is Pulp Country!, 2004 The Fatman Cometh, 2006"The Fatman Cometh", Cmt.com; accessed July 14, 2015. Fats Kaplins' World of Wonder Downunder, 2009 Waking Hour, 2011 (David Francy) — fiddleIrish, Paul. (September 29, 2011). "Music for Hugh's Room or maybe a newsroom", Toronto Star, p. E11 Morning Phase, 2014 (Beck) - banjo
With Kristi Rose I Wonder As I Wander, 2010 You're Still Around, 2011
With Kane Welch Kaplin You Can't Save Everybody, 2004 Lost John Dean, 2006 Kane Welch Kaplin, 2007
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