Tag Archives: Mike Auldridge

Since their inception in 1971, the Seldom Scene have thrived on playing bluegrass just a little differently than everybody else. If various other bands utilized a fiddler, the Seldom Picture utilized a Dobro; if others relied on previous standards, the Rarely Picture played rock and roll classics like J.J. Cale’s …

Along with his skill and his broad definition of this is of bluegrass music, Mike Auldridge became known over his multi-decade career being a master from the Dobro, or resonator guitar. Elevated in Kensington, Maryland, he started playing electric guitar at 12, adding banjo when he was 16 and buying …

Dobro whiz Mike Auldridge, bassist T. Michael Coleman, and business lead vocalist and guitarist Lawrence “Moondi” Klein began Chesapeake to complete their plan between gigs using the Seldom Picture. But, if they had been joined up with by mandolinist Jimmy Gaudreau, previously from the Tony Grain Unit, the effect was …