Fats Kaplin

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.^[1][2] He has worked with artists such as Jack White,^[3] Trisha Yearwood, The Tractors, Nanci Griffith, Pure Prairie League, John Prine, Roy Book Binder, Beck, Mitski, and Tinariwen.^[4]

Fats Kaplin
Background information
Born	Manhattan, New York, United States
Years active	2004–present

He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and is married to musician Kristi Rose.^[5] In 2003, he started playing with fellow country artists and Nashville residents Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch, as Kane Welch Kaplin.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Discography

• This Is Pulp Country!, 2004^[5]
• The Fatman Cometh, 2006^[11]
• Fats Kaplins' World of Wonder Downunder, 2009^[11]
• Waking Hour, 2011 (David Francy) — fiddle^[12]
• Morning Phase, 2014 (Beck) - banjo

With Kristi Rose

• I Wonder As I Wander, 2010^[13]
• You're Still Around, 2011^[14]

With Kane Welch Kaplin

• You Can't Save Everybody, 2004^[15]
• Lost John Dean, 2006^[16]
• Kane Welch Kaplin, 2007^[17]