Career
Morris was raised in Lamesa, Texas, where she played guitar early in life. While in college she began playing bluegrass music, and began playing banjo while completing a degree in art She played with bluegrass groups City Limits and Whetstone Run, but found many bluegrass groups resisted women members.
Assembling her own group, the Lynn Morris Band, in 1988, she began recording for Rounder Records.
Over time, her bandmates have included husband Marshall Wilborn, mandolinist Jess Brock,singer/guitarist Chris Jones, mandolinist/banjo player Dick Smith, fiddler Tad Marks, banjo/fiddle player Ron Stewart, mandolinist David McLaughlin, banjoist Tom Adams, and fiddler Stuart Duncan. In 1996 the Lynn Morris Band performed in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, as part of the Bluegrass Sundays winter concert series organized by the Northern Bluegrass Committee In 2005 the band entertained at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
