Riley Baugus is an American old-time guitarist, banjo player, fiddler, singer and instrument builder from Walkertown, North Carolina.

Baugus worked as a welder and blacksmith for 18 years before becoming a professional musician. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and England. He has played with several old-time string bands, including The Farmer's Daughters, The Konnarock Critters, The Red Hots, Backstep, and the Old Hollow Stringband. He tours regularly with Dirk Powell and Tim O'Brien, and frequently performs and tours with the dancer Ira Bernstein, with the duo show Appalachian Roots. He often performs as a guest musician with the Dirk Powell Band and the North Carolina folk band Polecat Creek. He sang on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Cold Mountain. He has recorded with Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Willie Nelson, Dirk Powell, and Martha Scanlan. He has taught banjo at the Augusta Heritage Center's Old Time Week in Elkins, West Virginia and at the Midwest Banjo Camp, in Olivet, Michigan.

Baugus released his first album, Life of Riley, in 2001. A second album, Long Steel Rail, was released in 2006. In 2019, Baugus released Little Black Train's a Comin'. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.