- The Great Dobro Sessions
Infobox Album
Name = The Great Dobro Sessions
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = various artists
Released =
September 18 ,1994
Recorded = 1994
Genre = CountryOld-time music
Bluegrass
Length = 73:31
Label = Sugar Hill
Producer = Jerry DouglasTut Taylor
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifexqwhldje~T2 link]
Last album =
This album =
Next album ="The Great Dobro Sessions" is 1994
country music and bluegrass album featuring an all-star line-up of 10 Americanresonator guitar andDobro players, produced by guitarists Jerry Douglas andTut Taylor .The album won that year's
Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album .Featured artists
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Mike Auldridge : Resonator and steel guitar player, former member of bluegrass group TheSeldom Scene , he is known for his swing style playing on eight-string resonator guitars.
*Curtis Burch : A member of the originalNew Grass Revival in the 1970s, he is more well known as a standard guitar player than a dobro player.
*Jerry Douglas: A leading contemporary dobro player, Douglas leads his own band and is a member ofAlison Krauss 's Union Station.
*Josh Graves : Burkett "Buck 'Uncle Josh'" Graves is credited as the inventor of bluegrass resonator guitar style, which he developed by implementing banjoistEarl Scruggs 's three-finger picking into his guitar playing whilst part of theFoggy Mountain Boys withLester Flatt and Scruggs. Uncle Josh died in 2006 at age 79.
*Rob Ickes : The youngest performer on the album, he is a virtuoso player and a member of the bluegrass supergroupBlue Highway .
*Pete "Bashful Brother Oswald " Kirby: A pioneering country resonator guitarist, he was a member ofRoy Acuff 's Smoky Mountain Boys and theGrand Ole Opry . Kirby died in 2002.
*Stacy Phillips : Guitarist and fiddler, noted for his unusual chord-based guitar playing.
*Tut Taylor : Veteran resonator guitarist, he is notable for being one of the few steel guitarists to use aflatpick (plectrum) rather than the more common finger-and-thumb picks.
*Sally Van Meter : Bluegrass player, playsScheerhorn resophonic guitars.
*Gene Wooten : A country music veteran, he played with theOsborne Brothers , Del andRonnie McCoury and on theGrand Ole Opry . He died in 2001.Track listing
#"Fireball Mail" (
Roy Acuff ) - 2:46
#*Performed by all the featured artists except Kirby
#"Dobro Chimes" (Beecher Ray Kirby) - 3:04
#*Performed byBashful Brother Oswald
#"Just Joshin'" (Burkett Howard Graves) - 3:04
#*Performed byJosh Graves
#"Poison Love" (Elmer Laird ) - 1:56
#*Performed byGene Wooten
#"Birdland" (Joe Zawinul ) - 5:24
#*Performed by Jerry Douglas
#"Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim ) - 5:20
#*Performed byMike Auldridge
#"The Last Rose of Autumn" (Stacy Phillips ) - 3:34
#*Performed byStacy Phillips
#"Rainbow Bridge" (Curtis Burch ) - 3:33
#*Performed byCurtis Burch
#"Great Season Waltz" (Slavek Hanzlik ) - 3:38
#*Performed bySally Van Meter
#"Scrapin' the Barrel" (Rob Ickes ) - 3:14
#*Performed byRob Ickes
#"Little Green Pill" (Tut Taylor ) - 3:15
#*Performed byTut Taylor andCurtis Burch
#"Day Tripper " (Lennon/McCartney ) - 2:39
#*Performed byGene Wooten
#"Flatt Lonesome" (Lester Flatt /Josh Graves ) - 4:12
#*Performed byJosh Graves and Tim Graves
#"Abilene Gal" (B. White) - 2:58
#*Performed by Jerry Douglas
#"McHattie's Waltz" (Kenny Baker) - 3:20
#*Performed byRob Ickes
#"Ace of Spades" (Traditional) - 3:40
#*Performed by Stacy Phillips
#"Suitcase" (Curtis Burch) - 3:25
#*Performed by Curtis Burch and Jerry Douglas
#"Cherokee Shuffle" (Traditional) - 3:31
#*Performed by Sally Van Meter
#"Lonesome Dobro" (Tut Taylor) - 4:33
#*Performed by Tut Taylor and Curtis Burch
#"Wake Forest" (Auldridge/Coleman) - 3:15
#*Performed byMike Auldridge
#"The End of the World" (Fred Rose) - 3:10
#*Performed byBashful Brother Oswald Backing musicians
* Kenny Baker -
Fiddle
*Russ Barenberg -Guitar
*Alison Brown -Banjo
*Mike Bub - Bass
*Sam Bush -Mandolin
*Vassar Clements -Fiddle
*Charlie Collins -Guitar
*Stuart Duncan -Fiddle
*Béla Fleck -Banjo
*David Grier -Guitar
*Roy Husky, Jr. - Bass
*Viktor Krauss - Bass
*Ronnie McCoury -Mandolin
*Edgar Meyer - Bass
* Larry Perkins -Banjo
*Mark Schatz - Bass
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