Little Green Footballs and bluegrass
We found a reference to Jerry Douglas and Alison Krauss on a widely read blog, known primarily for political comment and discussion. The blog has the unlikely name of Little Green Footballs, and it is consistently ranked as a Higher Being (top 10) by the Truth Laid Bear blog ranking service.
The LGF blogger has a habit of listing the music he is playing in iTunes on the site, and also shows a playlist of songs he has recently played, with the music actually available to sample on the site. Regardless of where you may reside on the political spectrum, it can only be of benefit to our music when it is featured – and promoted – on a popular site like this one with an average daily readership of over 80,000.
In the second track of this playlist, Alison Krauss introduces Jerry Douglas as “the greatest dobro player the world has ever known,” and that isn’t hyperbole.
Here are two versions of A Tribute to Peador O’Donnell by Jerry Douglas, the first from his studio album Restless on the Farm, and the second from Alison Krauss & Union Station – Live. (Audio available for a limited time.)
If we could get these popular political sites to argue more about whether electric bass belongs in bluegrass or whether Rhonda Vincent’s attire is appropriate instead of the issues of the day, bluegrass would really take over!
But seriously…
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Look for Alison Krauss as a guest on the Friday, August 31 edition of Nightline, the long-running ABC nightly news program. She'll be on for a regular Nightline feature called Playlist, where prominent pop artists discuss their favorite songs - what's on their playlist.
She taped this segment when...
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.
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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...
Here's another great weekend TV viewing option.
The broadcast of Alison Krauss & Union Station at The White House (with Brad Paisley and Charley Pride) airs on GAC this weekend. If you didn't get to watch it live online, you can catch it on cable Sunday (8/23) at either 8:00 p.m. or midnight (technically...
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....
One of the events we discussed here on The Bluegrass Blog during IBMA week in Nashville last month was Jerry Douglas' Keynote Address to the organization on September 25.
As I mentioned in that post:
His address seemed to focus on three basic themes: bluegrass music is in good shape, it is being...
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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...
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.
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