BornMay 28, 1956 (age 59)
Warren, Ohio (1956-05-28) InstrumentsDobro, resonator guitar, lap steel, guitar, banjo RoleGuitar player · jerrydouglas.com Music groupsAlison Krauss & Union Station (Since 1998) Profiles Twitter
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Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American resonator guitar and lap steel player and record producer. He has been nicknamed 'Flux.'
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Career
In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phish, Dolly Parton, Susan Ashton, Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, and Johnny Mathis, as well as performing on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. He has collaborated with various groups including The Whites, J.D. Crowe and the New South, The Country Gentlemen, Strength in Numbers, and Elvis Costello's "Sugar Canes".
Douglas produced a number of records, including some at Sugar Hill Records. He oversaw albums by Alison Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, Maura O'Connell, Jesse Winchester and the Nashville Bluegrass Band, The Earls of Leicester, The Steep Canyon Rangers. Along with Aly Bain, he serves as Music Director of the popular BBC Television series, "Transatlantic Sessions".
Since 1998, Douglas has been a member of Alison Krauss and Union Station which features Jerry Douglas, touring extensively and playing on a series of platinum-selling albums. When not on the road with Alison Krauss and Union Station, Douglas tours in support of his extensive body of work with his bands The Jerry Douglas Band and The Earls of Leicester following the continued success of their 2014 release The Earls of Leicester and 2015's Rattle and Roar.
Jerry Douglas appeared with Vince Gill on Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 ("Oklahoma Borderline" and "What the Cowgirls Do").
Douglas also made a cameo in the third "United Breaks Guitars" consumer protest video, all of which went viral.
Personal life
Douglas was born in Warren, Ohio, United States, and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Jill.
Awards
Douglas has received fourteen Grammy Awards and has won the Country Music Association's 'Musician of the Year' award three times, in 2002, 2005 and 2007.
Douglas is a 10-time recipient of the International Bluegrass Music Association ("IBMA") Dobro Player of the Year Award.
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Douglas a National Heritage Fellowship.
Douglas was named Artist in Residence for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008.
Douglas was honored at the 36th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado for his twenty-fifth consecutive year playing in and at the festival.
Douglas received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas, on October 15, 2016. The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music and bringing it to new audiences while preserving its character and heritage.
The Americana Music Association honored Jerry Douglas with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Douglas received the key to the city of Manchester,Tennessee as well as to Coffee County during a performance at the 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
Other recordings
Remembrances and Forecasts 1974 as The Country Gentlemen
J.D. Crowe & The New South 1975 as J. D. Crowe & the New South
Holiday In Japan 1975 as J. D. Crowe & the New South
New South Live 1975 as J. D. Crowe & the New South
Boone Creek 1977 as Boone Creek
One Way Track 1977 as Boone Creek
That Down Home Feeling 1977 as Buck White & Down Home Folks
Buck and Family Live 1979 as Buck White & Down Home Folks
More Pretty Girls Than One 1979 as Buck White & Down Home Folks
Bluegrass Album Vol.3: California Connection 1983 as Bluegrass Album Band
Snakes Alive 1984 as Dreadful Snakes
Bluegrass Album Vol.4 1985 as Bluegrass Album Band
High Country Snow 1985 Dan Fogelberg
Bluegrass Album Vol.5: Sweet Sunny South 1989 as Bluegrass Album Band
The Telluride Sessions 1989 as Strength in Numbers
Will the Circle be Unbroken Vol. 2 1990 with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Skip, Hop & Wobble 1993 as Barenberg, Douglas & Meyer
The Great Dobro Sessions 1994 as Jerry Douglas and various artists, produced by Jerry Douglas
Far From Enough 1994 with Viktor Krauss
Bluegrass Album Vol.6: Bluegrass Instrumentals 1996 as Bluegrass Album Band
Bourbon & Rosewater 1996 as Bhatt, Douglas & Meyer
Yonder 1996 with Peter Rowan
Signs of Life 1996 Steven Curtis Chapman
Leading Roll 1997 with Sammy Shelor
The View From Here 1999 with Matt Flinner
O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 with Alison Krauss, The Whites, as Soggy Bottom Boys
Latitude 2001, with Matt Flinner
I Don't Need the Whiskey Anymore 2002, with Jack Lawrence
Deja Vu (All Over Again) 2004 with John Fogerty
All I Really Want For Christmas 2005 Steven Curtis Chapman
Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane 2009 with Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes
"Southern Filibuster: The Songs of Tut Taylor" 2010, produced by Jery Douglas
"Rounder Records" 40th Anniversary Concert 2010 as Jerry Douglas with Bela Fleck, Alison Krauss & Union Station
"Get Low" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2010 as Jerry Douglas
"The Boxer", with Paul Simon and Mumford & Sons on the latter's album "Babel" (released September 2012) and on Douglas's own "Traveler", produced by Russ Titelman (released June 2012)
The Earls of Leicester 2014 with The Earls of Leicester produced by Jerry Douglas
Three Bells 2014 with Mike Auldridge and Rob Ickes produced by Jerry Douglas
"RADIO" 2015 with The Steep Canyon Rangers produced by Jerry Douglas <steep canyon rangers rounder>
"One Light Shining" by Ruth Moody from These Wilder Things 2013
"Rattle and Roar" 2016 with The Earls of Leicester produced by Jerry Douglas
With Alison Krauss or Alison Krauss and Union Station
I've Got That Old Feeling (Producer And Performer) 1991
Forget About It 1999
New Favorite 2001
Live - (Alison Krauss & Union Station) 2002
Lonely Runs Both Ways 2004
A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection 2007
Paper Airplane 2011
The Transatlantic Sessions
Transatlantic Sessions 3 [Vol.1] (2007) (with Jerry Douglas and various artists)
Transatlantic Sessions 3 [Vol.2] (2008) (with Jerry Douglas and various artists)
The Original Transatlantic Sessions [Vol.2] (2008) (with Jay Ungar and various artists)
The Original Transatlantic Sessions [Vol.3] (2009) (with Jay Ungar and various artists)
Transatlantic Sessions 4[Vol.1] (2009) (with Jerry Douglas and various artists)
Transatlantic Sessions 4[Vol.2] (2010) (with Jerry Douglas and various artists)
Transatlantic Sessions 4[Vol.3] (2010) (with Jerry Douglas and various artists)
Grammy Awards
1983 Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Fireball" – with The New South
1994 Best Bluegrass Album – "The Great Dobro Sessions"
2001 Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" with Earl Scruggs
2001 Album of the Year – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" – various artists
2001 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group – "The Lucky One"- Alison Krauss + Union Station
2001 Best Bluegrass Album – "New Favorite" – Alison Krauss + Union Station
2003 Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Cluck Old Hen" – Alison Krauss + Union Station
2003 Best Bluegrass Album – "LIVE" – Alison Krauss + Union Station
2004 Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Earl's Breakdown" – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Featuring Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Vassar Clements & Jerry Douglas
2006 Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal – "Restless" – Alison Krauss and Union Station
2006 Best Country Instrumental Performance – "Unionhouse Branch" – Alison Krauss and Union Station
2006 Best Country Album – "Lonely Runs Both Ways" – Alison Krauss and Union Station
2012 Best Bluegrass album - "Paper Airplane" – Alison Krauss and Union Station
2015 Best Bluegrass album - "The Earls of Leicester" - The Earls of Leicester
Americana Music Association Awards
2002 Instrumentalist of the Year
2003 Instrumentalist of the Year
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist
CMA Awards
2002 Musician of the Year
2005 Musician of the Year
2007 Musician of the Year
IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Awards
1990 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1991 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1992 Instrumental Album of the Year – Slide Rule, Jerry Douglas
1992 Record Event of the Year – Slide Rule
1992 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1993 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1994 Instrumental Album of the Year – Skip, Hop & Wobble; Douglas, Barenberg & Meyer
1994 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1995 Instrumental Album of the Year – The Great Dobro Sessions; Mike Auldridge, Curtis Burch, Jerry Douglas, Josh Graves, Rob Ickes, Oswald Kirby, Stacy Phillips, Tut Taylor, Sally Van Meter, Gene Wooten
1995 Record Event of the Year – The Great Dobro Sessions
1995 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
1997 Album of the Year – True Life Blues—The Songs of Bill Monroe; Sam Bush, Vassar Clements, Mike Compton, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Pat Enright, Greg Garing, Richard Greene, David Grier, David Grisman, John Hartford, Bobby Hicks, Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis, Mike Marshall, Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Jim Nunally, Scott Nygaard, Mollie O'Brien, Tim O'Brien, Alan O'Bryant, Herb Pedersen, Todd Phillips, John Reischman, Peter Rowan, Craig Smith, Chris Thile, Tony Trischka, Roland White
1997 Record Event of the Year – True Life Blues—The Songs of Bill Monroe
1997 Instrumental Album of the Year – Bluegrass Instrumentals, Volume 6; The Bluegrass Album Band
2001 Album of the Year - "O' Brother, Where Art Thou" Soundtrack -Norman Blake, James Carter & The Prisoners, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, The Peasall Sisters, The Soggy Bottom Boys, Ralph Stanley, The Stanley Brothers, Gillian Welch, The Whites; Mercury/Lost Highway Records
2001 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
2002 Instrumental Performer of the Year – Dobro
2003 Album of the Year – Alison Krauss + Union Station Live, Alison Krauss + Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
2003 Record Event of the Year – Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol. III; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Matraca Berg, Sam Bush, June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash, Vassar Clements, Iris DeMent, Rodney Dillard, Jerry Douglas, Glen Duncan, Vince Gill, Josh Graves, Jamie Hanna, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Martin, Del McCoury, Robbie McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Jonathan McEuen, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Tony Rice, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Doc Watson, Richard Watson, Glenn Worf & Dwight Yoakam
2015 Entertainer of the Year - The Earls of Leicester
2015 Instrumental Group of the Year - The Earls of Leicester
2015 Album of the Year - The Earls of Leicester, Jerry Douglas, producer
2015 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year - "Who Will Sing For Me" - The Earls of Leicester
2015 Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year - The Three Bells - Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge, Rob Ickes
2015 Dobro Player of the Year - Jerry Douglas
2016 Entertainer of the Year - The Earls of Leicester
