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Jerry Douglas, certified master of the resonator guitar, has a new CD due out August 19 on Koch Records. This will be his 12th solo project in a career that spans more than 30 years, and stints with a who's who of bluegrass and acoustic artists: Country Gentlemen, JD Crowe & The New South, Boone [...]
We picked up a few more details about the new Jerry Douglas signature resonator guitars from Beard Guitars, though there still isn't any new info on their web site. There will be two Douglas models - a production model and a limited edition guitar. The Jerry Douglas signature model will have all solid woods - [...]
Beard Guitars has just announced the introduction of their Jerry Douglas signature series model resophonic guitars. The Douglas models were unveiled today at the Winter NAMM show in CA. There aren't many details on the Beard site, but I'm sure we can get more information when they return from NAMM.
CMT.com is reporting that Jerry Douglas told reporters at the CMA Awards in Nashville that he will start work on a new recording with Alison Krauss & Union Station by the middle of next year. Rounder Records doesn't have any information yet about when they might complete this next project, or when it may be [...]
Congratulations to resonator guitarist Jerry Douglas, who picked up his third Musician of the Year award from the Country Music Association last night in Nashville. 2007 marked Jerry's 10th nomination for this CMA award, which was known as the Instrumentalist of the Year until 1988.
This morning (11/1), BluegrassCountry.org has interviews on tap with a couple of bluegrass and acoustic music legends. Sam Bush drops by at 9:00 a.m. to talk with Katy Daley about his current tour with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas, which stops tonight in DC. Then at 11:00, Lee Michael Demsey will preview his lengthy interview [...]
BBC Four will be airing a new series of the Transatlantic Sessions beginning this month. The show brings together musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, from the US, Ireland and Scotland. The various musicians will perform both solo and in various combinations. The first episode is set to air on Friday, September 21 and [...]
The current (8/20) edition of The New Yorker magazine includes, as a part of its weekly Talk Of The Town section at the front of the book, a piece on dobro megastar Jerry Douglas. Daniel Menaker accompanied Douglas on a shopping trip to Matt Umanov Guitars on Bleecker Street in Manhattan when Jerry was in [...]
John posted Saturday with his review of the Tony Rice/AKUS concert we attended Friday evening. Here are my thoughts on the concert after a weekend of reflection on the show. As John said in his post, we missed the first couple of tunes, but I did hear part of Early Morning Rain from the lobby. [...]
No, Clapton is not making a bluegrass record. He is hosting his second Crossroads Guitar Festival. The last one was held three years ago in 2004, and later released on DVD. Now an encore performance is scheduled for July 28, 2007 at Toyota Park in Chicago, IL. Last time around, in 2004, Jerry Douglas and [...]
