Mark Brine

National Traditional Country Music Association (NTCMA) Hall of Fame in 2004. In the 1960's, Mark was living in New England and doing folk music. Folk then was a musical genre which itself had fragmented from old-time mountain music. These days they call it all Americana. In the 1970's, he moved to Nashville. Shaped the Americana genre by releasing "Return to Americana" in 1985. Has been a staff writer and roster artist for two Nashville record labels. Winner of the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Contest in Meridian, Mississippi. An opening act at the legendary World Famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge in Nashville for six years. He appeared on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree with Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys. His debut performance on the Grand Ole Opry was with Hank Snow and his Rainbow Ranch Boys.