The other day I walked into Back Door Disc, a record store in southern Sonoma County.
They have a feature where they work in conjunction with our hippest local radio station, KRSH ("The KRUSH, wine country radio") and display a fairly large volume of a cd on an endcap with a sale price, and it is the "KRUSH pick of the week." It gets regular air time on the station to promote it, with a sale price in this case of $9.99, regular $16.99.
This week the featured album is the latest from Jerry Douglas, "The Best Kept Secret." Being that I'm a dobro and lap/non-pedal player, and the fact that if I were forced to pick one musician as my personal favorite, I would pick Jerry (John Fogerty, who sings on one track on the album, agrees with me)-well, this was some good news.
We have seen threads on the Forum lamenting the lack of pedal steel in a lot of today's country music, if you can call it that-or how it is getting pushed into the background.
So to see an album prominently featured in a record store by an artist that plays instruments in the steel guitar family (dobro/lap about 60/40 on this album), on a record that is mostly instrumental (Alison Krauss is featured on the only other song with vocals), I think is pretty darn cool.
It also says a lot about the upswing in popularity for dobro and lap steel through the past several years.
Of course when it comes to the dobro, Jerry is the guy that has really led the charge to bring the instrument to its increasingly popular status these days.
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Mark
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