That gentleman is quite the dobro player.

Also, Bela Fleck is so young in this video! I didn't realize he had been playing publicly for so long. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though.

^ Thanks for the promote there, alien_concept

I've been listening to this and you know what- Dobro (1st song in this playlist) might just turn out to be my new favorite song of theirs.

sign me up kitty, am proficient on most of these instruments save the dobro....too much controlll........olde timey muzak fake book in the head, containing tomes...

This guy looks like he took a guitar, and made a sorta dobro-out of it....very heavy strings and a steel tube(probly' another slide)shoved up under the strings at the nut to raise them.....this is cool, saw it on the front page at you tube but looked boring....this guy has a good ear and technique, as well as decent rythym......Great Idea to jack up an old POS guitar instead of throwing it away or smashing it........(done that plenty of times)......

This video does not do Eric Sardinas justice, as it's one of the tamer live clips I've seen of him, but he is an amazingly talented Blues Dobro player who frequently tours with Steve Vai, and he puts on one hell of a live show.

This is sweet music. Below is some stuff I found on the Web about them.



After years of developing a cult reputation among guitarists, Volkaert got the call to become lead guitarist for one of his heroes, Merle Haggard, in 1997. Since then he has been a "Stranger" in Merle's band, recording and touring non-stop, and appearing in concert and national television before millions of people.

What makes steel guitar and Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar's musical journey stand out is a combination of restless creativity and an uncanny ability to understand and add to a wild array of styles. She has worked with the likes of Leon Redbone, Graham Parker, Bob Dylan ( on his Grammy winning "Time Out Of Mind" CD), Jorma Kaukonen, Peter Rowan, and the stellar Cajun group BeauSoleil. As the steel guitarist for eight years with western swing kingpins Asleep At The Wheel, she logged many more additional road miles and won five Grammys.