Past Programs
Country - 2008
Jerry Douglas
04/10/2008
Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker and country music are not often found in the same sentence. To dobro supremo Jerry Douglas, all are apropos. So are Ireland, New Orleans, even Baghdad: all are connected to his new CD, Glide. Douglas has done more than anyone else to raise the dobro’s profile and to make it ‘at home’ in lots of ‘new’ musical territories. The slide-wizard is a steel-worker’s son who fell in love with his instrument as an eight-year-old, forty-four years ago. In explaining why, the man hailed as ‘the holy ghost of the resonator guitar’ says of the dobro, ‘It’s just like a voice.’
Jerry Douglas’ site:
www.jerrydouglas.com
A recent interview (with Douglas playing, too) can be heard here:
http://wpln.org/?p=842
Devon Sproule and Martha Scanlan {first aired on 17.6.07}
06/01/2008
We feature two fine, quite different North American female singer-songwriters. Keep Your Silver Shined is the second CD from Devon Sproule. Young but wise, she is witty and loving, with a light touch, but a deal of depth. Don’t let its ’down home’ atmosphere fool you - Ms Sproule is sophisticated, eclectic. She is also a very capable vocalist/guitarist. Martha Scanlan is older and more ’old-timey Americana’, musically. The West was Burning offers superb, spare-poetic songs. Her debut as leader was mostly made in Levon Helm’s studio, with himself on drums.
Devon Sproule’s site: www.devonsproule.com
Martha Scanlan’s site: www.marthascanlan.com
