The Great Dobro Sessions

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The Great Dobro Sessions
The Great Dobro Sessions cover
Studio album by various artists
Released September 18, 1994
Recorded 1994
Genre Country
Old-time music
Bluegrass
Length 73:31
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Jerry Douglas
Tut Taylor
Professional reviews

The Great Dobro Sessions is 1994 country music and bluegrass album featuring an all-star line-up of 10 American resonator guitar and Dobro players, produced by guitarists Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor.

The album won that year's Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

[edit] Featured artists

  • Mike Auldridge: Resonator and steel guitar player, former member of bluegrass group The Seldom Scene, he is known for his swing style playing on eight-string resonator guitars.
  • Curtis Burch: A member of the original New 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 of Alison 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 banjoist Earl Scruggs's three-finger picking into his guitar playing whilst part of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester 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 supergroup Blue Highway.
  • Pete "Bashful Brother Oswald" Kirby: A pioneering country resonator guitarist, he was a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and the Grand 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 a flatpick (plectrum) rather than the more common finger-and-thumb picks.
  • Sally Van Meter: Bluegrass player, plays Scheerhorn resophonic guitars.
  • Gene Wooten: A country music veteran, he played with the Osborne Brothers, Del and Ronnie McCoury and on the Grand Ole Opry. He died in 2001.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Fireball Mail" (Roy Acuff) - 2:46
    • Performed by all the featured artists except Kirby
  2. "Dobro Chimes" (Beecher Ray Kirby) - 3:04
  3. "Just Joshin'" (Burkett Howard Graves) - 3:04
  4. "Poison Love" (Elmer Laird) - 1:56
  5. "Birdland" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:24
  6. "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 5:20
  7. "The Last Rose of Autumn" (Stacy Phillips) - 3:34
    • Performed by Stacy Phillips
  8. "Rainbow Bridge" (Curtis Burch) - 3:33
    • Performed by Curtis Burch
  9. "Great Season Waltz" (Slavek Hanzlik) - 3:38
    • Performed by Sally Van Meter
  10. "Scrapin' the Barrel" (Rob Ickes) - 3:14
  11. "Little Green Pill" (Tut Taylor) - 3:15
  12. "Day Tripper" (Lennon/McCartney) - 2:39
  13. "Flatt Lonesome" (Lester Flatt/Josh Graves) - 4:12
  14. "Abilene Gal" (B. White) - 2:58
  15. "McHattie's Waltz" (Kenny Baker) - 3:20
  16. "Ace of Spades" (Traditional) - 3:40
    • Performed by Stacy Phillips
  17. "Suitcase" (Curtis Burch) - 3:25
  18. "Cherokee Shuffle" (Traditional) - 3:31
    • Performed by Sally Van Meter
  19. "Lonesome Dobro" (Tut Taylor) - 4:33
    • Performed by Tut Taylor and Curtis Burch
  20. "Wake Forest" (Auldridge/Coleman) - 3:15
  21. "The End of the World" (Fred Rose) - 3:10

[edit] Backing musicians