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  Jerry Douglas - Biography - AOL Music
Jerry Douglas is widely renowned as perhaps the finest dobro player in contemporary acoustic music.
Douglas was born in Columbus, OH, in 1955, and began playing the dobro at age eight with encouragement from his father, who was also a bluegrass musician.
Douglas was discovered at a festival by the Country Gentlemen, who took him on tour with them for the rest of the summer and later brought him into the recording studio.
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 Brad's Page of Steel - Jerry Douglas
Jerry was raised in eastern Ohio, and introduced to the Dobro® through the playing of Josh Graves with Flatt and Scruggs.
Jerry started playing with his father's group, the West Virginia Travelers, from Warren, Ohio, from the time he was 15 until he joined the Country Gentlemen in 1973.
Jerry joined the Whites in 1983 and played with them for six years, releasing several records with them.
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 Jerry Douglas - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
Jerry Douglas has been acting in films, commercials, night-time dramas, and day soaps for over forty years.
Douglas has touched millions of lives through his work as an actor, and now, he is touching even more through his inspiring presentations on keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive.
Douglas brings fantastic stories and fun anecdotes of his journey to success to every presentation, and asserts that all business is show business.
www.leadingauthorities.com /12409/Jerry_Douglas.htm   (300 words)

  
 Book Jerry Douglas - Booking Corporate Event, Meeting, Private Party - Your Booking Agent for Jerry Douglas
His main foundation is bluegrass, but Jerry Douglas is an eclectic whose tastes run toward jazz, blues, folk, and straight-ahead country as well, and he's equally capable of appealing to bluegrass aficionados or new agers with a taste for instrumental roots music.
Jerry Douglas was born in Columbus, OH, in 1955, and began playing the dobro at age eight with encouragement from his father, who was also a bluegrass musician.
Jerry Douglas was discovered at a festival by the Country Gentlemen, who took him on tour with them for the rest of the summer and later brought him into the recording studio.
www.grabow.biz /Contemporary/Jerry-Douglas.htm   (730 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas Trivia - Jerry Douglas Facts - Jerry Douglas Notes
Jerry is a long-time contributor to the Salvation Army.
Jerry (because of his age, people are often surprised he is Hunter’s father and not his grandfather): Young women see me, and when they find out that I’m his father, they almost get excited.
Jerry (on meeting second wife, Kymberly): I saw this knockout blonde, and all I remember were her great legs.
www.tv.com /jerry-douglas/person/54915/trivia.html   (481 words)

  
 arborweb reviews - review: Jerry Douglas
Douglas has appeared as a session musician on an enormous variety of recordings, both within the country field and beyond.
It's a real tour de force — not because Douglas is terribly virtuosic (though he is in a few places) but because he seems to have reflected on the Dobro as an idea.
Bluegrass is never completely absent from Douglas's music, but the heart of this album resides in a group of compositions, several of them by Douglas himself, that meditatively extend the Dobro's roots genres.
www.arborweb.com /reviews/0206.jerrydouglas-review.html   (451 words)

  
 Aspen Times News for Aspen Colorado - Arts and Entertainment
At the age of 8, Douglas was taken to a Flatt and Scruggs concert, where he was knocked flat not so much by the guitar-picking Lester Flatt or the banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, but by Josh Graves and his instrument, the dobro.
Douglas learned from Lindley that the traditional acoustic instruments didn't have to be used in the traditional way, played into a microphone.
Douglas, who had recorded with Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs and numerous other country-leaning artists, knew he was entering a new realm when he was summoned to play on Ray Charles' 1984 record, "Friendship." "I thought, 'Now that's going to be different,'" he said.
www.aspentimes.com /article/20060825/AE/108250045/0/FRONTPAGE   (1463 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas, age 46, is a perennial competitor in Northern California events including the Golden State MX Series, Trials, Short Track, Super Motard, and Road racing.
Team Calamari is particularly proud of Jerry for his contributions to the sport of YSR racing.The Golden State Mini Roadracing Association awarded him the "President's Trophy" in 2000, and 2002, which is a most prestigious award based on sportsmanship, contribution to the sport, and many more criteria.
Jerry is married (his wife Laura also races YSR's,) and the father of a beautiful 9 year old daughter.
www.teamcalamari.com /dox/jerry.html   (771 words)

  
 NPR : 'Best Kept Secret:' Jerry Douglas' Dobro Wizardry
Jerry Douglas' dobro guitar work can be heard on more than 1,500 recordings.
Douglas recently honored the Dopyera brothers, Czechoslovakian immigrants who invented the dobro guitar in the 1920s.
Jerry Douglas recently stopped by NPR's studio 4A and brought along his dobro, a six-string guitar with a metal plate, holes and a diaphragm made of spun aluminum.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4988000   (330 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jerry began his career as a singer on the east coast.
Now that his John Abbott character on "Young and The Restless," is so well established, Jerry is planning a series of concert performances around the country, as well as internationally where Y and R is viewed.
Jerry’s wife, Kym Douglas, is a news journalist on the 1 rated "The Gossip Show," on the E Entertainment Television network.
www.pattersonandassociates.com /bios/Jerry_Douglas   (261 words)

  
 2004 NEA National Heritage Fellowships: JERRY DOUGLAS
Dobro player, Nashville, TN At different times critics have called Jerry Douglas the Charlie Parker and the Jimi Hendrix of the Dobro.
Douglas, who was playing acoustic guitar in his father's string band in the steel belt town of Warren, Ohio, first heard the Dobro played by "Josh" Graves when Graves was touring with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
Music critic Tom Grill of Sydney, Australia, says of Jerry Douglas, "He may have peers in the future, but at the moment he stands alone on a musical pinnacle he created, eager for good resophonic company, but still quite alone after more than twenty years of touring and backstage teaching.
www.nea.gov /honors/heritage/Heritage04/Douglas.html   (225 words)

  
 Jelly review: Jerry Douglas and Peter Rowan
Jerry Douglas was last seen in these parts on the Bourbon and Rosewater album.
Douglas and Rowan sound like two good friends playing songs they remember their mothers singing.
Jerry Douglas, dobro and Weissenborn guitars; Peter Rowan, vocal, guitar and mandolin.
www.jellyroll.com /04/douglasrowan.html   (586 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas News
Jerry Douglas Caps Off Biggest Year of His Career With "A Prairie...
December 18, 2006 -- KOCH Recording artist Jerry Douglas is capping off the biggest year of his career, with much more in store for 2007.
New York, NY The Jerry Douglas Band continues to tour with Paul Simon, with the second leg of dates announces for this fall.
www.topix.net /who/jerry-douglas   (671 words)

  
 Young and Restless - Jerry Douglas - Interview - Soap Opera Digest and Weekly
Portrayer Jerry Douglas opens up about the challenges of playing such a "scary" story, and why he's happy to revisit his own past with wife Kymberly.
Jerry Douglas: They played with it, but it was never specified.
Douglas: The writers mentioned it to me, so I kind of knew it was going to happen, but I loved the way they did it.
soapoperadigest.com /features/yr/interviews/jerrydouglas06   (802 words)

  
 Tall Stacks Music Arts & Heritage Fesitval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In addition to being widely known as the foremost master of the Dobro, the nine-time Grammy winner is a freewheeling, forward-thinking recording artist whose output draws upon a bottomless well of musical inspiration, incorporating elements of bluegrass, country, rock, jazz, blues and Celtic into his distinctive musical vision.
In 2002, Douglas released the solo album Lookout for Hope and won three Grammy Awards for his work with Union Station and one Grammy for his work with Earl Scruggs, as well as receiving five Grammy Award Acknowledgements for the O Brother soundtrack and its live sequel Down From The Mountain.
Summer 2003 found Douglas on stage with Norah Jones and her band for sets at the Montreal Jazz Festival and at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
www.tallstacks.com /Entertainment/Music_JerryDouglas.html   (637 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas leads Dobro® into new era
Jerry Douglas' fluid lead lines, along with his lightning fast pull-on, pull-off technique, have brought the Dobro
In recent years, Douglas was in such high demand for session work that he began to worry about his personality, if not his soul.
Douglas shut himself in his office in the basement of his house in Nashville and spent two or three days recording everything he could think on a mini-disk.
www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2002/jul2a.html   (1123 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas Photos - Jerry Douglas News - Jerry Douglas Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Jerry Douglas joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in March 1982.
Jerry attended Brandeis University on a football scholarship, where he graduated with a BS degree in Economics.
Jerry has appeared in over 100 television series in his career.
www.tv.com /jerry-douglas/person/54915/summary.html   (302 words)

  
 Independent Weekly: Music: Spotlight: Jerry Douglas
Douglas still employs that hands-on learning he experienced as a small child, constructing his own dobro wizardry in new contexts with collaborators like Bela Fleck, Paul Simon, Ray Charles and Emmylou Harris.
Those lessons are front and center on Douglas' new solo album, The Best Kept Secret, where he explores a saucy funk jam with Krauss, dirty rock riffs with Derek Trucks and swampy blues with John Fogerty, constantly pushing his instrument into new frontiers.
Jerry Douglas plays the Cat's Cradle with Donna Hughes on Thursday, Sept. 7 at 8:30 p.m.
www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:36333   (525 words)

  
 CBS Daytime | The Young And The Restless
Jerry Douglas joined cast of The Young and the Restless in March, 1982, as John Abbott, the patriarch of the Abbott family and the wealthy chairman of Jabot Cosmetics.
Douglas was born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Douglas, his wife Kym and their son, Hunter, live in Encino, California.
www.cbs.com /daytime/yr/about/bios/jdouglas.shtml   (271 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas often plays Scheerhorn resonator guitars, built with an open soundwell and solid wood for huge volume.
Jerry has received twelve Grammy Awards in recognition of his talent.
Bourbon and Rosewater 1996 as Douglas, Meyer, Bhatt
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Douglas_(musician)   (717 words)

  
 MusicWorld Feature: Jerry Douglas
Dobro player-extraordinaire Jerry Douglas has won multiple Grammy Awards as both a producer and a performer.
Yet, even as a solo musician, Douglas probably knows as much as anyone else about what it's like to be in the core of the band; helping to shape the sound and style of either a collective or backing another artist.
Douglas sets new limits with the Restlesso on the Farm album, though he never loses touch with the organic nature of the dobro.
www.bmi.com /musicworld/features/200107/jdouglas.asp   (560 words)

  
 Review - Jerry Douglas: Lookout For Hope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jerry Douglas has made a career out of making other people's music sound better with the inclusion of his unique skill as a slide guitarist.
Another notable contributor is saxophonist Jeff Coffin, whose presence is especially felt as Douglas pushes his music beyond the bluegrass and Americana realms with which he's generally associated into jazz space and beyond.
Jerry Douglas may be a player's player, but he's made an album that provides pure joy for the listener.
www.cosmik.com /aa-july02/reviews/review_jerry_douglas.html   (226 words)

  
 The Connection.org : The Dobro According to Jerry Douglas
There's one man responsible for the rise of the resonator, Jerry Douglas.
Jerry Douglas slides his six string into our studio.
Jerry Douglas, It was an instrument that called out to me from an early age listen
www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/10/20021011_b_main.asp   (214 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Everything Is Gonna Work Out: Music: Jerry Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
By age 26, Jerry Douglas had already completed stints with the Country Gentlemen, J.D. Crowe & New South, and Boone Creek in addition to his two solo records for Rounder.
This is a good collection of Jerry Douglas's bluegrass and a few new grass tunes.
I have a few of his CD's, and this is another great CD by Jerry Douglas.
www.amazon.ca /Everything-Gonna-Work-Jerry-Douglas/dp/B0000003MM   (258 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Slide Rule: Music: Jerry Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jerry Douglas — Find pics, news, movies, interviews, filmography and more at Moviefone.
Obviously, I am a BIG Jerry Douglas fan and think that his artistry with the dobro is at another level from most other musicians in any musical style you could name.
Legendary dobroist Jerry Douglas surrounded himself with a top-notch group of instrumentalists, and then brought in several guest artists for specific numbers.
www.amazon.com /Slide-Rule-Jerry-Douglas/dp/B000000F22   (912 words)

  
 Jerry Douglas : Lookout for Hope - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
As the world's undisputed premier dobro player, Douglas has played with just about everybody.
On Lookout for Hope, Douglas' fifth release for Sugar Hill, Douglas delivers up his usual newgrass, accompanied by some of the usual newgrass heavyweights, including Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, and Jeff Coffin.
As the master of the instrument, Douglas can do pretty much whatever he wants.
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 Jerry Douglas: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
And, as would befit somebody with that kind of distinction, his playing is utterly virtuosic.
Dobro master Jerry Douglas steps out of his usual sideman's role (he has appeared on over 1,000 albums) on this excellent solo effort.
During the five years (1985-1990) that he was a member of David Grisman's influential Quintet, Marshall toured with Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas and fellow Grisman band member Darol Anger.
www.music.com /person/jerry_douglas/1   (565 words)

  
 Music | Jerry Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
And when it’s in the hands of a master of technique, tone, and taste like Jerry Douglas, the results are lovely and staggering.
He’s no slouch as a composer himself: his own "Cave Bop" rips with a vigor and invention that conjures Charlie Parker, and his Maurice Sendak—inspired "The Wild Rumpus" has the energy and humor of little Max’s frolic on the Wild Things’ island.
But through it all Douglas maintains a sweet mellow tone that could soothe even the most savage beast.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02375697.htm   (236 words)

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