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Jerry Douglas
Photo by Scott Simontacchi One of the most innovative musicians and gifted producers of his generation, Jerry Douglas is at the point in his career of fifty years when he can do whatever he wants. A fifteen-time Grammy winner and the ten-time recipient of IBMA’s “Dobro Player of the Year” award, Douglas—along with Josh Graves,…
Notes & Queries – November 2023
Q: I’ve heard it said that the 1959 Folkways album Mountain Music Bluegrass Style was the first bluegrass album ever recorded. I guess that means a set of songs and tunes recorded specifically to be released in album format. Does that sound right to you? I recall purchasing albums by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe,…
Nancy Cardwell Webster
Ensuring A Bright Future For Bluegrass Photo By Angela Norton Nancy Cardwell Webster is no stranger to readers of Bluegrass Unlimited. The award-winning Missouri native has written dozens of articles for BU through the years, including this edition’s cover story featuring resophonic guitar master, Jerry Douglas. A prolific wordsmith, Nancy wrote her first story for…
Putting the I in IBMA
Photos by Ben Wright With the release of their latest album Lead and Iron and after more than nineteen years as a band, Chicago-based Henhouse Prowlers has settled on the right combination. They started as a six-piece band playing every Tuesday night at a neighborhood bar on the north side of Chicago. As they started…
Billy Cardine
Resophonic Explorations Billy Cardine has explored the possibilities of the square-neck resophonic guitar far beyond the genres of bluegrass, folk, country, Americana and blues. While musical explorations that push the outer bounds of genre are not typically embraced by bluegrass hardliners, Cardine is a musician who knows how to reign in his expansive musical abilities…
Outlaw in Your Mind
Songwriters are the eyes of the world and Baltimore songwriter Caleb Stine’s eyes are better than most. Armed with a storyteller’s inquisitiveness and a restless independent spirit, Stine is songwriter of uncompromising heft, he can spin tales that are joyful expressions, songs that are serious meditations on life, and write tunes that are all of…