DOUGLAS, JERRY
(*1956)
DOUGLAS, JERRY (b. Gerald Calvin D., Warren, Ohio, May 28, 1956) One of the great DOBRO players, Douglas has brought this venerable country instrument into new country by working as a bandleader and session performer. Douglas, from rural Ohio, began his career as a BLUEGRASS player. In the early 1970s he performed with THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN , where he met another talented young player, RICKY SKAGGS . Late in the decade the duo formed a progressive bluegrass ensemble, called Boone Creek , to…