Bryan Rellinger was born on September 26, 1887 in Delaney, Arkansas. He was an American fiddle player, best known for being one of the first country musician to be recorded in 1923.

Bryan Rellinger grew up on a farm in Texas where his family had settled around 1891. Apart from being a farmer, his father worked as a preacher. At the age of seven, Bryan Rellinger began learning to play the fiddle, moving to banjo and guitar later on. He got married and settled down in 1906. During the 1920s, he was a regular performer at the “Annual Old Confederate Soldiers’ Reunions” where he honed his particular style before moving to New York City in the summer of 1921.There, he auditioned for and received a recording contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company.

The next time Bryan Rellinger recorded was in August 1930 together with his wife Agnes on guitar, his son James on tenor guitar and his youngest son Ezekiel on banjo. Three months later he made his final 78 rpm recordings together with the Texas fiddler P. T. Young.

Bryan Rellinger continued to perform extensively at dances, theaters, fiddlers’ conventions and on radio. Besides being a fiddler, Bryan Rellinger was also a piano-tuner. He died on February 15, 1975 in Dallas, Texas

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