1 She Makes Me Want To Sing * With Derek Trucks
2 Who's Your Uncle? * With Sam Bush And Bela Fleck
3 Back In Love Again * With Alison Krauss
4 A Remark You Made
5 The Best Kept Secret
6 Lil' RoRo * WIth Bill Frisell
7 Swing Blues No.1 * With John Fogerty
8 Snow's First Fall
9 Ya Ya Etc.
10 U R My Flower
11 Sir Aly B

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What's not to love?

 Album Rating: (4 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Delivery was on time, undamaged. This is another fabulous dobro album by Jerry Douglas. Nothing could be better except hearing him in person at Merlefest every year, and then we come home and wait to buy his next release on Amazon. This album (The Best Kept Secret) was no exception. So glad he ventured out solo to express his own inner voice, inner style. I still listen to identiy his signature/unique dobro playing style on other songs, other artist's albums, he may have collaborated on, but it is his solo/individual style I look forward to hearing every year, expressed/captured forever in his album releases. I highly recommend this album for all dobro afficionados.

Not what you'd think

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I've heard Douglas on various records and liked him quite a bit -- but most of his work has been in the narrow field of bluegrass. I didn't run out to buy this because I saw Sam Bush, Allison Krause and Bela Fleck were on it and thought it'd be another bluegrass mainstream record.

It is not. This is a fusion session; and while it pushes too hard at some points to be one (the version of "A Remark you Made" a classic of
the fusion repetoire, is a good but not great moment) it succeeds completely in others.

"She Makes Me Want to Sing" is a classic of tight fitting rock with a sort of Alabama-Allman Brothers flavor -- but what it reminds me of most is early Quicksilver Messenger Service or possibly the Grateful Dead from before Live/Dead. It is energetic, expressive, tight, and it rocks.

"The Best Kept Secret" opens similarly, but goes off into a Zawinul-influenced meditation before coming back to its roots. At moments it reminds me of Miles Davis, post 'Kind of Blue' but with railroad songs at the root instead of soul riffs.

"Lil' Roro" is a roots rocker with country blues as the taproot. "Swing Blues" is well described elsewhere, but it's also not bluegrass. "Ya Ya etc. is more like Bela Fleck when he's NOT being a bluegrass musician,
i.e., UFO-TOFU style.

The Best Kept Secret

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised.

THE BEST OF THE BEST

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: A+++ THE BEST IVE EVER HEARD BYE THE DODRO MASTER

great music

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I heard about this CD in the interview that Jerry Douglas did on NPR; otherwise, I might not have purchased it. We are really enjoying the music.