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The Set

Jerry Douglas’s The Set serves as both an entry point and a milestone for an elite musician who
has defied categorization throughout his exceptional career. For his first album in seven years,
Douglas has curated several reimagined favorites from his catalog alongside new, original songs
from his fellow musicians in The Jerry Douglas Band. In addition to Douglas, the band’s lineup
includes Daniel Kimbro on bass, Christian Sedelmyer on fiddle, and Mike Seal on guitar. Seal,
the newest member, came on board in 2016. “This is the longest time I have had one set of
musicians on stage, and they really know these tunes inside and out. We are able to have more
fun with them because we know them so well,” Douglas said.

“I chose these songs for The Set because people respond strongly and positively to these songs,”
Douglas continued. “I truly care what the listener thinks, and I let that direct me. I want the
audience to understand what is being said musically. I do not want to run off from them, with
chops or musical ideas that may leave them in the dust. I want to tak

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Douglas, Jerry

Dobro player, producer, composer

Jerry "Flux" Douglas is a contemporary American dobro player well known in bluegrass circles for playing with bands including Country Gentlemen and Alison Krauss & Union Station, but also because he has continued to explore and expand the vocabulary for the instrument as a solo artist. CityBeat's Jon Weisberger crowned Douglas "the world's foremost resonator guitarist." Douglas is a busy session musician with a seemingly endless list of credits on Nashville recorded albums in both the country and bluegrass genres, and is considered by many to be one of the finest dobro players in contemporary acoustic music.

A 1998 article in City Paper stated, "When the call goes out for dobro players … there's only one guy that makes up the entire A-list, and that's Jerry Douglas." That call has gone out from a diverse group of musicians and composers that reads like a who's who of contemporary music, including Garth Brooks, the late Ray Charles, Bill Frisell, Emmylou Harris, Tim O'Brien, Maura O'Connell, Dolly Parton, Peter Rowan, an

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Interview with Mary Eckstein

NEA: Congratulations on your award. Could you tell me what it means to you?

MR. DOUGLAS: I never expected anything like this. I just love playing music and feel really lucky to be able to do it for a living and fortunate that my family supports it. They really believe in me. I've been gone pretty much since the 5th of May and I was really looking forward to being home a lot more this year in the summer time. Then a tour fell on me and changed everything, and I was gone for most of the summer. My family just took it in stride, no one objected. I try to make it up to them every chance I get. But having kids and being away from home is hard. The life of a musician is hard. Things like this award make it a little easier.

NEA: What led you to start playing the dobro?

MR. DOUGLAS: My father played the guitar and sang -- he had a bluegrass band for as long as I can remember. He worked in the steel mills up in Northeastern Ohio and the first thing I would hear when I woke up in the morning was Flatt and Scruggs. There was a dobro player named Josh Grav