Dobro master and 16-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas is to the resonator guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar, elevating, transforming, and reinventing the instrument in countless ways. Douglas’s music incorporates country, bluegrass, rock, jazz, blues, and Celtic influences into his distinctive musical vision. The three-time CMA Musician of the Year is one […]

From their beginnings in mid-1960s Ohio as a group of friends playing cover tunes to the present-day unit, Pure Prairie League continues to embellish the rich 50-plus year history as one of country-rock’s pioneering forces. The band’s eponymous first album—featuring the Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover that introduced fans to the trademark cowpoke Sad […]

At 86 years old, two-time Grammy winner Bob James has enjoyed a tremendously varied career. To some, he’s a hip hop icon because of the samples of his music that played a pivotal role in the foundation of rap; to others, he’s the godfather of smooth jazz. Since the early 1970s, when he famously ignited […]

Bandolim master Hamilton de Holanda is one of Brazil’s most celebrated musicians—a global ambassador, virtuoso performer, and groundbreaking improviser. He began his professional career as a six-year-old mandolin prodigy on a national Brazilian TV show. Today, as a composer, improviser, bandleader, and educator, his music transcends genre, and his improvisational genius dazzles. His career is […]

In celebration of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, both born in 1926, pianist Emmet Cohen brings together an all-star quintet for a bold, reimagined experience featuring Coltrane’s and Davis’s genre-changing music. Together, Cohen and the quintet explore the fundamental questions that shaped Coltrane’s and Davis’s artistry: Why are we here? What are we reaching for? […]

Individually, JD Simo and Luther Dickinson are building their own legacies as solo artists, sidemen, songwriters, and guitar heroes. Together, they’re a creative force to be reckoned with, making their own version of amplified American roots music. On the pair’s first collaborative album, Do the Rump, the musicians trade blistering guitar solos, take turns at […]