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2 unusual facts about Dobro


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Andrew Osenga – Acoustic Guitar, Electiric Guitar, Dobro, Charango, Keyboard Bass, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Drum Battery

The Ballad of Curtis Loew

A young boy wakes up "before the rooster crows" and searches for soda bottles to cash in to give some money to a man named Curtis Loew, who buys wine and plays his Dobro guitar "across his knees" for the boy all day.


Anthony da Costa

Anthony is also known for his work with Abbie Gardner, a dobro player and singer/songwriter from the band Red Molly.

Burnt Lips

Although Kottke did not release an album in 1977, he produced and played on The Wylie Butler by Cal Hand (Takoma TAK C-1056), a Minneapolis pedal steel and dobro player who had played on numerous Capitol releases for Leo.

Butch Robins

In the early seventies, Robins worked with artists such as Charlie Moore and the Dixie Partners, banjoist Vic Jordan, dobro player Tut Taylor, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, Jim & Jesse, mandolinist Buck White, Leon Russell and the New Grass Revival.

Changing Channels

Changing Channels is the fourth solo album by dobro player Jerry Douglas, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music).

Cheer Down

American dobro player, Rainer Ptacek performed this song in 1997 – it was later issued on Live at the Performance Center album in 2001

Chris Vallillo

The result was the 1995 release “Best Of All Possible Worlds” which featured some of the finest acoustic players in Nashville; folks like Roy Huskey Jr. on bass, Kenny Malone on drums, Rob Ikes on dobro, David Schnaufer on dulcimer and Andrea Zahn on violin.

Gregg Cagno

Mostly appearing solo, Cagno is sometimes accompanied by Karl Dietel on keys, violinist Carol Sharar, or Jimmy Heffernan on Dobro.

Heartworn Highways

The end of the movie shows a drinking party that starts Christmas Eve and ends sometime Christmas Day at Guy Clark's house in Nashville with Guy, Susanna Clark, Steve Young, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Jim McGuire (playing the dobro), along with several other guests.

If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry

Mike Brenner – lap steel guitar, dobro, electric guitar, bass guitar

Basic tracking for this, Marah's fifth studio release, began with departing band members Jon Wurster on drums and Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner on dobro, bass, and electric guitar, and finished with new members Dave Petersen on drums and Adam Garbinski (both formerly of the band Squad Five-O) on electric guitar.

Josh Graves

Also known by the nicknames "Buck," and "Uncle Josh," he is credited with introducing the resonator guitar (commonly known under the trade name of Dobro) into bluegrass music shortly after joining Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955.

Monastir Offensive

On 4 of October the Allies attacked with the French and Russians in the direction of Monastir - Kenali, the Serbian First and Third Army in along the Kenali - Cherna Loop line, the Serbian Second Army against the Third Balkan Division - in the direction of Dobro Pole.

Nataša Bekvalac

In 2008, after marrying to Danilo Ikodinović and becoming a mother, she released her "comeback single" Dobro moje and she became the face of "Extreme intimo".

Restless on the Farm

Restless on the Farm is the seventh solo album by dobro player Jerry Douglas, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Rob Campanella

Brian Jonestown Massacre, And This Is Our Music, album (2003) — Producer, Engineer, Hammond Organ, Dobro, Mandolin, Piano

The Blind Messenger

Carl Weingarten – Dobro and EBow on "Message to the Blind Watchmaker (Ascii Mayhem)"

TV Slagalica

Gaming supervisor Milka Canić became somewhat of a staple television personality from Serbia, as she always starts the show by simply greeting the contestants and the host with the catchphrase "Dobro veče" ("Good Evening"), the remark which is notable for being in use for more than 10 years of the show's run, and still is to this day.

Under the Wire

Under the Wire is the third solo album by dobro player Jerry Douglas, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music).


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