Topic: Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas is a Grammy award winning slide Guitar and Dobro player who is known for his high speed picking and manual dexterity. Besides his work as a solo performer, Douglas is also a member of the group Alison Krauss and Union ...
I happened to be in Ireland the weekend of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, usually known as Gaelic Football. During the evening concert on the Saturday night, as each Irish musician did their set, they would either shout Come on Mayo ...
The Dreadful Snakes wasn't supposed to be anything more than an informal group of musicians who got together to play bluegrass between gigs. They phoned fiddler Blaine Sprouse, mandolinist Roland White, guitarist Pat Enright, and bassist Mark Hembree, and the group ...
The orchestra has enlisted 27-year-old superstar pianist Lang Lang as soloist in Friday's meat-and-potatoes all-Beethoven program, including the "Eroica" Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 3. It would be hard to overstate the popular success Chinese pianist Lang Lang has achieved since ...
When a record company with taste buds the likes of Sugar Hill puts out a series of greatest hits CDs, you know you're in for some great music. Where Guy Clark's expertise is in hard-hitting narrative folk songs, James McMurtry ...
