Eddie Bayers: The Country Music Hall of Fame

Eddie Bayers has played drums on around 300 gold and platinum albums. After more than forty years as a leading Nashville studio musician, he is now the first drummer in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He overcame a difficult early life to become one of Nashville’s most sought-after drummers. Turning to music, Bayers ventured to the East Coast and then west as a pianist and drummer, finding work in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He moved to Nashville in 1973, and by the 1980s, Bayers was playing on albums by future Hall of Fame members the Judds, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, and George Strait. Bayers has been the Grand Ole Opry staff drummer since 2003.

Dig deeper into Eddie Bayers’s story on the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's website: Watch.CountryMusicHallofFame.org.