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 ...

Mike Auldridge, a bluegrass musician whose broad knowledge of many musical forms helped redefine and modernize the steel guitar known as the Dobro, died Dec. 29 at his home in Silver Spring. He died a ...

WASHINGTON — Mike Auldridge, a bluegrass musician whose broad knowledge of many musical forms helped redefine and modernize the steel guitar known as the Dobro, died Saturday at his home in Silver ...

J ust a few minutes into a phone call from Carbondale, Colo., there’s a buzzing from Anders Beck’s phone. “Sorry if there’s buzzing,” the Greensky Bluegrass dobro player said. “My phone’s starting to ...

The piano and the dobro are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. One is a titanic instrument of Western music, integral to classical and jazz. The other is used mostly in country music and bluegrass ...

Jerry Douglas, considered by many to be the best dobro player in the world, brings his instrument to the studio and talks about his new album, The Earls of Leceister, a tribute to Flatt and Scruggs.

With dobro in hand, Colorado-based bluegrass musician Andy Hall will head off with the Infamous Stringdusters on a national concert tour that kicks off Jan. 20 in Albany, New York, and arrives in 17 ...

Picture Robert Earl Keen at a campground, getting up the courage to approach his outdoors neighbor, Norman Blake. Keen, 59, has made his fame as an Americana musician, writing and performing songs ...

You might not know that he played with some of the leading lights of the acoustic music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. You might not guess that he wrote books on music or that he had spent decades ...