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 ...

GOODWYN: Three of the best musicians to ever pick up that instrument are Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes. Auldridge, Douglas and Ickes came together to produce an unusual album, "Three ...

When Duncan Stitt starts playing the dobro, it sounds like a creek might sound if it were a song. The notes slide along from one to the next in an easy stream, twisting around any obstacles in their ...

The guitar is a Dobro, and it resonates with the sliding twang that has become a hallmark of traditional country music -– largely because of Krise. Think of the ear-catching soundtrack of “O Brother, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nashvillian Jerry Douglas, one of the most prolific dobro players in the world, is gearing up to release a new record with the ...

Stambaugh Auditorium. Fifth Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio. This was 1963, and Jerry Douglas had recently turned 7 years old. “I guess our whole family went, but I don’t remember anybody else being there ...

Tut Taylor, "The Flatpickin' Dobro Man" who played on John Hartford's groundbreaking LP "Aereo-Plain" and helped open Nashville bluegrass hot spot The Old Time Pickin' Parlor in the early 1970s, died ...

Just a little east of Etowah, Tn., Tellico Plains is perhaps best known for good trout fishing. It is also the birthplace to one of the most influential musicians of the second half of the twentieth ...