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.
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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...
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...
Barry Mazor just wrote in to let us know that he has published an article about Jerry Douglas in today's Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist, the article spends time focusing on Douglas' accomplishments, but also on how his mind works musically. Many resophonic guitar player would love to figure...
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....
I just spoke with Dave Carney. Dave is in New York City celebrating with his boss Keith Urban who won two awards from the CMA earlier this evening. It was loud wherever he was so we didn't speak for long, but he did tell me that Jon Randall and Bill Anderson won song of the year for Whiskey Lullaby,...
Audio from Jerry Douglas' recent performance on Mountain Stage can be found at NPR.com. He appeared with his band on the show this past weekend to perform songs from his current CD, Glide.
The Jerry Douglas Band consists of Luke Bulla on fiddle, Guthrie Trapp on guitar, Todd Parks on bass and Chad...
Have a Jerry, Jerry Christmas?
That suggestion was surely knocked down early on when choosing a title for the new Jerry Douglas Christmas album, recently released by E1 Music (formerly Koch Records). The actual title is Jerry Christmas, and the CD contains a dozen Christmas favorites, both traditional...
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...
The nominees for the 2008 Country Music Awards were announced earlier this week, and there are only two bluegrass-related artists who made the cut.
Jerry Douglas is nominated again for Musician Of The Year, and award he has won three times previously - in '02, '05 and '07.
Alison Krauss received...
Multi-instrumental legend Sam Bush is to receive the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist award at a ceremony later in the year. Bush will be presented with the award at the 8th Annual Americana Honors and Awards ceremony, which is scheduled to take place on September...
Jerry Douglas' new CD The Best Kept Secret is a secret no longer. Today is the official release date for the latest CD from dobro master Jerry Douglas. I've posted about this previously, but just wanted to remind everyone that they can get a copy today.
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Dobro-meister Jerry Douglas recorded four projects during his time with Sugar Hill Records, and a couple of others in collaboration with other artists. Now that he is recording for Koch, Sugar Hill has assembled a compilation of Jerry's time with them, which will be released on March 13 as Jerry Douglas...
This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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