RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The Dobro is the instrument that usually grabs people's attention when listening to a bluegrass band. The distinctive sound catches your ear, but it's also the way the instrument is ...
Fellow musicians describe him as the best dobro player in the business for good reason. Jerry Douglas is a 16-time GRAMMY-winning musician, composer, producer, and long-time member of Alison Krauss ...
As an affectionate black cat solicited caresses, its owner sat in his Allentown living room, displaying the affection he has for a special type of inanimate object, an inanimate object with a lot of ...
WASHINGTON — Mike Auldridge, a bluegrass musician whose broad knowledge of many musical forms helped redefine and modernize the steel guitar known as the Dobro, died Saturday at his home in Silver ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “I know we have to play other states, but I don’t want to,” said Greensky Bluegrass Dobro player Anders Beck to a roar at the Ogden Theatre Friday night.
You might not know that he played with some of the leading lights of the acoustic music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. You might not guess that he wrote books on music or that he had spent decades ...
Mike Auldridge may not be a household name, but to fans of bluegrass music, especially in the Washington area, where he lived and frequently performed for nearly half a century, it's as recognizable ...
The five musicians of Greensky Bluegrass will bring their improvisational style to the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre for a Feb. 5 concert. When members of the band Greensky Bluegrass meet up with ...
Jerry Douglas, considered by many to be the best dobro player in the world, brings his instrument to the studio and talks about his new album, The Earls of Leceister, a tribute to Flatt and Scruggs.
The piano and the dobro are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. One is a titanic instrument of Western music, integral to classical and jazz. The other is used mostly in country music and bluegrass ...
With dobro in hand, Colorado-based bluegrass musician Andy Hall will head off with the Infamous Stringdusters on a national concert tour that kicks off Jan. 20 in Albany, New York, and arrives in 17 ...