Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas & Rob Ickes - Three Bells (2014) [Official Digital Download]

„Three Bells“ is an historic collaboration between Dobro masters Jerry Douglas (13-time Grammy winner and three-time Country Music Association Musician of the Year,) Mike Auldridge (1970’s Dobro pioneer, member of The Seldom Scene, and sideman for Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt,) and Rob Ickes of Blue Highway, the most awarded instrumentalist in the history of the International Bluegrass Music Association.

„Three Bells“ finds these master musicians employing their prodigious talents to create a set of spare, emotionally-affecting instrumental performances of original tunes and venerable pop and country numbers. Three Bells is these musicians’ first work together since 1994′s Grammy-winning ‘The Great Dobro Sessions,’ and features the final recordings of Douglas’ longtime friend and mentor Auldridge, who passed away shortly after the sessions were completed.

“The goal was not necessarily to make a record,” Douglas explains. “The idea was simply to record some things together, because we needed to, and if there was time and we were able to get enough done, maybe it would become a record. Fortunately, that’s how it worked out.” (Jerry Douglas)

Tracklist:
01. Silver Threads Among The Gold
02. North
03. Till There Was You / Moon River
04. Dobro Heaven
05. Sunrise Serenade
06. The Perils Of Private Mulvaney
07. The Three Bells
08. For Buddy
09. The Message
10. Panhandle Rag
11. I’m Using My Bible For A Roadmap

Personnel:
Jerry Douglas, Dobro
Mike Auldridge, Dobro
Rob Ickes, Dobro

Recorded at Bias Studio, Springfield, VA, on May 2, May 22 and September 17, 2012 by Jim Robeson
Mixed at Minutia in Nashville, TN by Gary Paczosa
Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master, Nashville, TN
Produced by Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes