How do you explain the amazing success of dobroist Jerry Douglas? Perhaps a unique ability to compartmentalize or maybe a touch of creative schizophrenia. Whatever it is, Douglas has it by the metric ton.
Sam Bush began his career early, picking up the mandolin at 11 and winning the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler's Contest three times as a teenager. He eventually became famous as the lead of New Grass Revival in the early 1970s.