Mike Auldridge, a Dobro master and founding member of the bluegrass group Seldom
Scene, died from cancer Saturday (Dec. 29) at a hospice near his home in Silver Springs, Md. His death came one day short
of his 74th birthday.
Starting as a guitar player, Auldridge switched to the resophonic guitar — or Dobro — when
he was 17. In 1971, he joined banjoist Ben Eldridge, guitarist and vocalist John Starling and bassist Tom Gray to form the
Seldom Scene, a band that stretched the boundaries of bluegrass music into the folk, rock and jazz idioms. He remained with
the Seldom Scene until the mid-1990s and subsequently formed the group Chesapeake.
Influenced by Josh Graves, the
Dobroist for Flatt Scruggs the Foggy Mountain Boys, Auldridge
in turn became a music role model for the inventive and award-winning Dobroists Jerry
Douglas and Rob
... Continue reading... Courtesy: CMT News
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