Kevin Maul

The roster of musicians in the long history of country and bluegrass music is replete with the names of masters of the fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar, but when it comes to the dobro, or resophonic guitar, the list of top-flight players of the instrument -- once described by the late Seldom Scene mandolinist John Duffey as "a regular guitar with a '57 Plymouth hubcap bolted over the sound hole" -- is remarkably short in comparison. For many years, the work of Burkett "josh" Graves with Flatt And Scruggs was the benchmark for dobro players, but as the recorded work of Jerry Douglas and the Seldom Scene's Mike Auldridge became more widely known in the 1970s and 1980s, a number of new players like Californian Sally Van Meter and New York native Kevin Maul began to appear, bringing with them new attitudes and styles to stretch the dobro's influence on country and bluegrass.



Read More