[5] Waldron was born April 4, 1941, in Jolo, West Virginia, a small rural community in McDowell County.
[8][3][4] The initial band was called The Lee Highway Boys, but was changed to Emerson & Waldron and it stuck.
Waldron briefly played with the Shenandoah Cut-Ups before recruiting his former bandmates into a new band, the New Shades Of Grass,[11] who backed up his first solo release.
[2] He made two albums in the middle 1970s, Gospel and God Walks the Dark Hills, before taking a break from music to begin a career with the National Park Service.
From 1998 to 2003, he recorded four new albums: Old Friends and Memories, Seasons Past, Higher Ground, a gospel collection with bluegrass musician Paul Williams, and A Little Ways Down the Road.