The Bluegrass Bands & Helping Hands organization released the second music CD in the series, volume two “Through the Eyes of a Child” last Saturday to an enthusiastic audience. The event which included live music and activities for children was attended by approximately two hundred. The CD raised $620 during the evening’s festivities which will benefit…

One of my favorite albums back in the early Seventies was “Mike Auldridge Dobro,” just a wonderful collection of songs and primo pickers on the old Tacoma label. It’s one of those albums that literally got played until the grooves pretty much wore out — at least to the point where the high-frequencies eventually disappeared.

I had always been a bit fascinated by the sound of a Dobro, mainly through the playing of Josh Graves on my Flatt & Scruggs LPs and listening to Bashful Brother Osward backing up Roy Acuff on the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts….