Hoot Hester

Hester had played backup for a number of country music recording artists, among them Alabama, Hank Williams Jr., Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Randy Travis,[1] Bill Monroe, Vern Gosdin, and Ricky Van Shelton.

[2] Hester was the former fiddler and founder of a Nashville-based Western swing band, named the Time Jumpers.

In 1973 he moved to Nashville, having received several job offers after winning fifth place in a fiddle contest at which Chet Atkins and other prominent people in the music industry were judges.

[4] During the 1980s Hester began doing session recording for various artists and producers, and has continued this work until his death.

In 1997 Dennis Crouch and Hester put together a western swing band called The Time Jumpers.