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Around Nashville and pretty much everywhere else, Jerry Douglas’s name is synonymous with the Dobro. The acoustic guitar has a distinctive look – almost like a large steel plate on the front where a the sound hole would be on regular guitar; and a distinctive way of being played, lying flat in the lap with both hands on top like a steel guitar. Jerry Douglas is its master. He’s graced more than two thousand recordings with his instrument’s mournful strains and catapulted the Dobro into the mainstream music canon. WPLN’s Kim Green has this profile.
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Jerry Douglas talks about the origins of the dobro, how it made its way into country music, and demonstrates the different techniques and styles that influenced the way he plays today. (10 minutes)
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