Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've had the good fortune of seeing dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas perform live a few times together with Alison Krauss and Union Station. Douglas is an amazing and inventive instruementalist. Even discounting for the somewhat cult audience that attends to bluegrass music, Douglas has achieved far greater recognition among his fellow musicians than among the musical public at large. "We Hide and Seek"...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
THE distance between Nashville and the Blue Note just got a lot shorter, thanks to a dobro player named Jerry Douglas. At the opening of his eight-show residency at the famed Village club on Thursday, Douglas illustrated why his nickname is "Flux...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Nashville, TN -- Dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas has been added to the all-star line-up of performers at the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum's second annual All for the Hall New York benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on Wednesday, October 15. He joins musical performers including Larry Campbell, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Levon Helm. The benefit will be presented...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Barry Mazor just wrote in to let us know that he has published an article about Jerry Douglas in today’s
Listen Up (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
On his playlist this week, Brian Mansfield outdoes himself for musical range, encompassing piano pop, jazz, garage rock, roots-pop, alt-country, guitar-hero country, rap-country, Mexican rock, and even mainstream rock. > Pick of the week: Gotta Be Somebody, Nickelback: When one...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy has earned legendary bassist Charlie Haden his best-selling debut in over half a century of making music. The album ranked #2 on Billboard's bluegrass chart, and landed in the overall Top 100, as well as riding near the top on Amazon's bestsellers all week...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
There was a time when family entertainment often consisted of coming together to sing and play; when music was not just an oral tradition but a means of engendering familial closeness. A time long past, it contrasts with the contemporary reality of disenfranchised children, in no small part the result of a society where double [...]
CMT News (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Jerry Douglas has established himself as one of the most versatile musicians in Nashville, both as a studio musician and a featured member of Alison Krauss & Union Station. And he's still hungry -- but not in the same way as hundreds of other pickers
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
BANJO STAGE Sharon Little: 2:30-3:15 p.m. The Jerry Douglas Band: 3:35-4:35 p.m. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with T Bone Burnett: 5:15-6:45 p.m. Band Joe and the Whyte Laydie: 10:45-10:55 a.m. Jimmie Dale Gilmore: 11-11:35 a.m. Laurie Lewis...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
By: Wesley Hodges Whenever a master of his craft releases a piece of art, expectations are unbelievably high and curiosity is abound. Glide (released August 19 on Koch Record) exceeds such lofty expectations and builds on an already impressive armada of solo releases from the king of the dobro...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Rounder will be reissuing Tony Trischka’s terrific 1985 banjo album, Hill Country as a remastered CD on October 21. Tony is viewed as a mainstream guy these days, thanks in no small part to his blockbuster Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular project which hit in early 2007. In the mid-1980s, however, he was noted mostly for his [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Rounder will be reissuing Tony Trischka’s terrific 1985 banjo album, Hill Country as a remastered CD on October 21. Tony is viewed as a mainstream guy these days, thanks in no small part to his blockbuster Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular project which hit in early 2007. In the mid-1980s, however, he was noted mostly for his [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Charlie Haden is a name that serious jazz fans will recognize, but for folks in the bluegrass an acoustic world, it may not be familiar. With his star-studded new release, Rambling Boy, out this week, you might expect him to gain some new fans in our sphere too. Haden is a bass player known for his [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
John Oates knows something about blending.
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Burlington, MA - Long unavailable, the legacy of Tony Trischka's 1985 album Hill Country has been kept alive by musicians and fans via carefully-guarded vinyl pressings and cassette dubs. On October 21 Rounder Records will release the highly anticipated re-mastered edition, complete with extensive new notes and a bonus track, restoring to print a pivotal piece of bluegrass history. By investigating...
