It has been almost 100 years since the resonator guitar was born of necessity. In the days before amplification, musicians needed a way to make their acoustic guitars louder, and the striking ...

So what do you do if your solo performance set list includes compositions featuring parts for electric guitar, banjo and Dobro? You can either try to simplify the arrangement or attempt some ...

Tim Scheerhorn, the genius behind the coveted Scheerhorn Resonator Guitar and recent inductee into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, led me into his ascetic, sub level workshop and offered me a ...

GOODWYN: Three of the best musicians to ever pick up that instrument are Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes. Auldridge, Douglas and Ickes came together to produce an unusual album, "Three ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The Dobro is the instrument that usually grabs people's attention when listening to a bluegrass band. The distinctive sound catches your ear, but it's also the way the instrument is ...

First designed by John Dopyera and George Beauchamp in the late 1920s, National resonator guitars were a solution to two problems plaguing guitarists. First, volume: prior to the invention of electric ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This resonator guitar was made by ...

COLUMBIA — Once called "the Buddha that I pray to every day" by Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty, Jerry Douglas has been a groundbreaking figure in bluegrass music for decades.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This guitar was made in Japan and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When he was 13, back in 1969, Jerry Douglas met his hero, Josh Graves, then the most acclaimed player of the Dobro resonator guitar in ...