Dr. Fritts is well-versed in many musical styles, including bluegrass, traditional country, jazz, and classical. His objectives are to teach and perform in these styles. In a career ranging from performance to composition to concert promotion to instruction, Dr. Fritts compiled numerous credentials. His band, The Fritts Family, has recorded more than a dozen albums including the 2006 CD “One More Mountain.”

This album debuted nationally on the Singing News chart, and the Roots Music Report: Roots Gospel chart (rising to #2). Dr. Fritts also released a second solo album in 2009.

Over the last four decades, Dr. Fritts appeared at hundreds of concert venues, including the Kennedy Center (with the ETSU Senior Bluegrass Band), the International Bluegrass Association Awards Show and Fan Fest (with the ETSU Senior Bluegrass Band), Earnest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree (with The Fritts Family), the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival (with The Fritts Family), the Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival with (the Shankman Twins), the Bluebird Café (with The Fritts Family), the From the Family tour (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts) (with The Fritts Family), and the PBS television show “Song of the Mountains“ (with The Fritts Family). Also, he has served as an instructor at Milligan College and East Tennessee State University.
Additionally, Dr. Fritts has co-produced numerous concert events including the Bluegrass in the Smokies festival.

Dr. Fritts has also authored and produced instructional DVDs and books relating to vernacular musical styles, and my arrangements have been featured in Flatpicking Guitar magazine. Also, Dr. Fritts's articles have appeared in the Rogersville Review and Flatpicking Guitar, and the Fritts Family continues to host a weekly radio show on WRGS.

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