Doug Pettibone (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and studio musician.
Doug Pettibone started to play the guitar at the age of eight. His first teacher was Andy Summers, formerly of The Police . With nine years, Doug studied with Eddie Lafreniere, guitarist for big band leader Jimmy Dorsey, with whom he spent the next five years studying the music of Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington. Later he received a scholarship to Pepperdine University-Malibu for Jazz Guitar, Classical Guitar and Voice, graduating with a triple major in 1984. In the following years he played with many different artists of various genres.
In 1999, Doug started a world tour with Jewel that lasted for a year and a half. In 2001, he played pedal steel, mandolin and background vocals for Tracy Chapman 's North American tour. Shortly after that, Lucinda Williams hired Pettibone as her multi-instrumentalist, singer and music director to tour, record, and co-produce. Doug´s intensive collaboration with Lucinda lasted for eight years, and continued at a later stage again. In the following years, Pettibone realized several projects with other artists. In 2004 Doug participated in the Legends Rock TV show produced in the South of France, featuring guest artists such as Sam Moore , Billy Preston and Tony Joe White . Ray LaMontagne is amongst the artist Doug went on tour with, in 2009 it was Marianne Faithfull who called him up to go on tour. After that Marianne Faithfull and Doug Pettibone started to write together new songs for a new album.
In the last few years, Pettibone has played live and/or recorded with some of the most influential artists of our times, among them Keith Richards , Norah Jones , Steve Earle , Elvis Costello , Joan Baez , Mark Knopfler , Draco Rosa , Sting , Michelle Shocked , Vic Chesnutt , Kevin Montgomery, amongst others. In 2012 he went on tour with Lisa Marie Presley , daughter of Elvis Presley . In 2013 Pettibone toured with Lucinda Williams with just the two of them on stage .
He joined John Mayer's touring band as lap steel and guitar player for the Born and Raised 2013 World Tour.
2016 Doug is on World Tour with the Italian Zucchero - accompanied by Brian Auger on Hammond Organo.
In October 2004, Doug released his first solo record "The West Gate". Pettibone's second solo CD "Gone" was released in 2014.
2004: The West Gate (self-released) 2014: Gone (self-released) 1996: Disappear Fear - Seed in the Sahara (Rounder / Philo ) - guitar 1997: Catie Curtis - Catie Curtis (Capitol ) - guitar (electric, nylon-string, gut-string) 1997: Dave Koz - December Makes Me Feel This Way (Capitol) - guitar (electric, acoustic, bass) 1997 Joy Lynn White - Lucky Few (Little Dog / Mercury ) - guitar (acoustic, electric) 1999: Jewel - Spirit (Atlantic ) - electric guitar 2001: Dick Sims - Within Arm's Reach (Explosive) - guitar 2002: Alejandro Escovedo - By the Hand of the Father (Texas Music Group) - electric guitar, steel guitar, hi string guitar, slide guitar 2002: Tim Flannery - Highway Song (PSB) - lap steel, pedal steel 2002: Rian Greene - See Things Like You (TSR) - guitar (12 string, acoustic, electric, baritone) 2003: Joan Baez - Dark Chords on a Big Guitar (Koch / Sanctuary ) - acoustic guitar 2003: Cindy Alexander - Smash (JamCat) - guitar, pedal steel 2003: Vic Chesnutt - Silver Lake (New West ) - arranger, guitar (12 string, acoustic, electric, tremelo), mandolin, pedal steel, vocals 2003: Kevin Montgomery - Another Long Story (Syren) - guitar (acoustic, electric, baritone, steel), vocals 2003: Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears (Lost Highway) - arranger, electric guitar, mandolin, vocals 2004: Tony Furtado - These Chains (Funzal) - guitar (acoustic, electric), pedal steel 2004: Berkley Hart - Twelve (PAN via CD Baby ) - pedal steel 2004: Jesse Malin - The Heat (Artemis ) - electric guitar, pedal steel 2004: Kevin Montgomery - 2:30am (Syren) - audio production, electric guitar, gut string guitar, producer 2004: Waylon Payne - The Drifter (Universal) - guitar 2004: Phil Parlapiano - Pianoforte (PBR) - vocals 2004: Tim Flannery - Kentucky Towns (PSB) - electric guitar, pedal steel 2005: Faby - Finally (Megabien Music) - guitar (acoustic, electric), vocals 2005: Shurman - Jubilee (Vanguard ) - pedal steel 2005: Sara Evans - Feels Like Home (RCA Nashville ) - electric guitar 2005: Keith Gattis - Big City Blues (Smith Music) - pedal steel 2005: Matthew Grimm - Dawn's Early Apocalypse (Grimm Reality Music) - vocals 2005: Mark Knopfler - The Trawlerman's Song EP (Mercury) - electric guitar 2005: Mark Knopfler - One Take Radio Sessions (Warner Bros.) - electric guitar, mandolin 2005: Madrugada - The Deep End (EMI / Virgin ) - pedal steel 2005: Tom McRae - All Maps Welcome (Sony / BMG) - pedal steel 2005: Michelle Shocked - Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Mighty Sound) - guitar, harmonica, vocals 2005: Michelle Shocked - Mexican Standoff (Mighty Sound) - guitar, vocals 2005: Michelle Shocked - Threesome (Mighty Sound) - guitar, vocals, harmonica 2005: Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore (Lucinda Williams album) (Lost Highway) - guitar, harmonica, lap steel, mandolin, pedal steel, vocals 2006: Debi Derryberry - What a Way to Play (4River / Very Derryberry) - electric guitar 2006: Tim Easton - Ammunition (New West) - electric guitar, mando-guitar 2006: Anne McCue - Koala Motel (Messenger ) - pedal steel 2006: Molly Howson - Bar Napkin Songs (CD Baby ) - guitar (acoustic, electric), lap steel, producer 2006: Nathaniel Street-West - Witness (Puffin) - pedal steel 2006: various artists - Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (Anti-) - guitar, background vocals 2007: Debi Derryberry - Very Derryberry (4River / Very Derryberry) - guitar 2007: Herman Mathews - Home At Last (Lil Herman) - dobro, guitar 2007: Dave Koz - Memories of a Winter's Night (Capitol) - guitar (acoustic, electric) 2007: Gia Ciambotti - Right as Rain (New Light) - dobro, guitar (acoustic, electric), lap steel, mandolin, pedal steel 2007: Olivea Watson - Way Down Deep (Ramblin' Rose) - guitar (acoustic, electric, tremolo, slide), mandolin, pedal steel, vocals 2007: The Honey Togue Devils - All Tall & The Melting Moon (CD Baby) - guitar 2007: Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway) - guitar (acoustic, baritone, electric) 2008: Austin Hartley-Leonard - Franklin Ave. (Mother West) - guitar, pedal steel 2008: Tift Merritt - Another Country (Fantasy ) - guitar, pedal steel 2008: Gregory Page - All Make Believe (Sounden) - electric guitar, pedal steel 2008: Lucinda Williams - Little Honey (Lost Highway) - dobro, guitar (acoustic, electric, slide, 12-string electric & acoustic) pedal steel, vocals 2008: honeyhoney - First Rodeo (Ironworks Music / Universal Republic) - guitar 2009: Wink Keziah - Hard Times (Great South) - electric guitar 2009: Debi Derryberry - Debi Derryberry's Baby Banana (4River / Very Derryberry) - electric guitar, vocals 2010: Shy Blakeman - Long Distance Man (Winding Road) - dobro, guitar (12 string, acoustic, electric) 2010: Matt Blais - Let It Out (self-released) - guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, vocals 2010: Chocolate Genius, Inc. - Swansongs (One Little Indian) - guitar 2010: Mark Sholtez - The Distance Between Two Truths (Warner Music Australasia) - electric guitar, barritone guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel 2010: Mojo Monkeys - Blessings & Curses (Medikull) - pedal steel 2011: John Doe - Keeper (Yep Roc ) - pedal ateel 2011: David Nail - The Sound of a Million Dreams (MCA Nashville) - electric guitar 2011: Jill Sobule and John Doe - A Day at the Pass (Pinko) - banjo, guitar, pedal steel 2011: Marianne Faithfull - Horses and High Heels (Dramatico ) - banjo, composer, guitar (acoustic, electric), pedal steel, vocals (lead, background) 2012: Anna Bergendahl - Something To Believe In (Lionheart) - guitar 2012: G. DaPonte - Lucky Days and Lucky Numbers (Three Moves Equals A Fire) - electric guitar 2013: various artists - Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys's (Anti- / Epitaph ) - guitar 2014: Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20) - electric guitar, vocals 2014: various artists - Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne (Music Road) - electric guitar on track 2-2 "The Pretender" 2015: The White Buffalo - Love And The Death Of Damnation (Unison) - pedal steel, lap steel 2015: Todd Griffin - Mountain Man (Bad Reputation) - guitar 2015: various artists - Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton (Tompkins Square) - guitar on track 5, "Met An Old Friend" 2016: various artists - God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (Alligator ) - guitar 2017: Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer - Not Dark Yet (album) 2013 The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver - Guitar (Electric) 2012 Walter Rose: Cast Your Stone - Guitar, Weissenborn, 12 string octave guitar 2012 Occupy This Album - Guitar, Mandolin 2012 Quiet About It: A Tribute To Jesse Winchester - Guitar (Electric) 2009 Porcupine - Tim Easton - Guitar 2009 The Great Lakes - Ross McIntosh - Banjo, Dobro, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Mando-Guitar, Vocals 2008 Kid Dynamite and the Common Man - Eric Corne - Dobro, Guitar (Electric), Main Personnel, Ukulele 2008 Let It All Come Down - G. DaPonte - Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Soloist 2008 The Imus Ranch Record - Guitar 2007 Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry - Harmony 2007 Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino - Guitar (Electric) 2007 Outta Nowhere - Tim Myers - Banjo, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Mandolin 2007 Rio Rocko - Rio Rocko - Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Electric) 2005 Return to Sin City: A Tribute to Gram Parsons - Guitar, Vocals 2005 This Is Americana, Vol. 2 - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals 2004 Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo - Guitar, Producer 2004 This Is Americana - Guitar (Electric), Harmony, Mandolin 2003 Crossing Jordan - Guitar (Electric) 2003 Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Soul of a Man - Bass, Vocals 2003 Sounds of Wood and Steel, Vol. 3 - Guitar, Primary Artist Artist's Choice: Norah Jones - Norah Jones - Group Member Made in America (TV series documentary) (2003) Legends Rock (music TV series) (2004) Jefferson Davis: An American President (TV documentary) (musician: guitar) (2008)