Cline learned to play the fiddle properly from Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, who lived in his parents house around the year 1940.
[4] In the late 1940s, Cline became a member of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a radio band formed in 1937 based in Bluefield, West Virginia.
Cline recorded 32 songs with the Bluegrass Boys between 1952 and 1955,[5] playing every instrument but the mandolin.
It was the first time that lead guitar was used on the Stanley Brothers recordings - which would soon become an essential part of their sound.
Charlie Cline was also a part of the famous back-stage jam with Monroe that led Carlton Haney to develop his passion for bluegrass music.