The Great Dobro Sessions

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Name = The Great Dobro Sessions
Type = studio
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Artist = various artists

Released = September 18, 1994
Recorded = 1994
Genre = Country
Old-time music
Bluegrass
Length = 73:31
Label = Sugar Hill
Producer = Jerry Douglas
Tut Taylor
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifexqwhldje~T2 link]
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"The Great Dobro Sessions" is 1994 country music and bluegrass album featuring an all-star line-up of 10 American resonator guitar and Dobro players, produced by guitarists Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor.

The album won that year's Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

Featured artists

*Mike Auldridge: Resonator and steel guitar player, former member of bluegrass group The Seldom Scene, he is known for his swing style playing on eight-string resonator guitars.
*Curtis Burch: A member of the original New Grass Revival in the 1970s, he is more well known as a standard guitar player than a dobro player.
*Jerry Douglas: A leading contemporary dobro player, Douglas leads his own band and is a member of Alison Krauss's Union Station.
*Josh Graves: Burkett "Buck 'Uncle Josh'" Graves is credited as the inventor of bluegrass resonator guitar style, which he developed by implementing banjoist Earl Scruggs's three-finger picking into his guitar playing whilst part of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester Flatt and Scruggs. Uncle Josh died in 2006 at age 79.
*Rob Ickes: The youngest performer on the album, he is a virtuoso player and a member of the bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway.
*Pete "Bashful Brother Oswald" Kirby: A pioneering country resonator guitarist, he was a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and the Grand Ole Opry. Kirby died in 2002.
*Stacy Phillips: Guitarist and fiddler, noted for his unusual chord-based guitar playing.
*Tut Taylor: Veteran resonator guitarist, he is notable for being one of the few steel guitarists to use a flatpick (plectrum) rather than the more common finger-and-thumb picks.
*Sally Van Meter: Bluegrass player, plays Scheerhorn resophonic guitars.
*Gene Wooten: A country music veteran, he played with the Osborne Brothers, Del and Ronnie McCoury and on the Grand Ole Opry. He died in 2001.

Track listing

#"Fireball Mail" (Roy Acuff) - 2:46
#*Performed by all the featured artists except Kirby
#"Dobro Chimes" (Beecher Ray Kirby) - 3:04
#*Performed by Bashful Brother Oswald
#"Just Joshin'" (Burkett Howard Graves) - 3:04
#*Performed by Josh Graves
#"Poison Love" (Elmer Laird) - 1:56
#*Performed by Gene Wooten
#"Birdland" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:24
#*Performed by Jerry Douglas
#"Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 5:20
#*Performed by Mike Auldridge
#"The Last Rose of Autumn" (Stacy Phillips) - 3:34
#*Performed by Stacy Phillips
#"Rainbow Bridge" (Curtis Burch) - 3:33
#*Performed by Curtis Burch
#"Great Season Waltz" (Slavek Hanzlik) - 3:38
#*Performed by Sally Van Meter
#"Scrapin' the Barrel" (Rob Ickes) - 3:14
#*Performed by Rob Ickes
#"Little Green Pill" (Tut Taylor) - 3:15
#*Performed by Tut Taylor and Curtis Burch
#"Day Tripper" (Lennon/McCartney) - 2:39
#*Performed by Gene Wooten
#"Flatt Lonesome" (Lester Flatt/Josh Graves) - 4:12
#*Performed by Josh Graves and Tim Graves
#"Abilene Gal" (B. White) - 2:58
#*Performed by Jerry Douglas
#"McHattie's Waltz" (Kenny Baker) - 3:20
#*Performed by Rob Ickes
#"Ace of Spades" (Traditional) - 3:40
#*Performed by Stacy Phillips
#"Suitcase" (Curtis Burch) - 3:25
#*Performed by Curtis Burch and Jerry Douglas
#"Cherokee Shuffle" (Traditional) - 3:31
#*Performed by Sally Van Meter
#"Lonesome Dobro" (Tut Taylor) - 4:33
#*Performed by Tut Taylor and Curtis Burch
#"Wake Forest" (Auldridge/Coleman) - 3:15
#*Performed by Mike Auldridge
#"The End of the World" (Fred Rose) - 3:10
#*Performed by Bashful Brother Oswald

Backing musicians

* Kenny Baker - Fiddle
* Russ Barenberg - Guitar
* Alison Brown - Banjo
* Mike Bub - Bass
* Sam Bush - Mandolin
* Vassar Clements - Fiddle
* Charlie Collins - Guitar
* Stuart Duncan - Fiddle
* Béla Fleck - Banjo
* David Grier - Guitar
* Roy Husky, Jr. - Bass
* Viktor Krauss - Bass
* Ronnie McCoury - Mandolin
* Edgar Meyer - Bass
* Larry Perkins - Banjo
* Mark Schatz - Bass