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* 1990: ''Treasures Untold'' (Sugar Hill)
* 1990: ''Treasures Untold'' (Sugar Hill)
* 2000: ''Tone Poems III (The Sounds Of The Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments)'' (Acoustic Disc) with [[Bob Brozman]] and [[David Grisman]]
* 2000: ''Tone Poems III (The Sounds Of The Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments)'' (Acoustic Disc) with [[Bob Brozman]] and [[David Grisman]]
* 2014: ''Three Bells'' (Rounder) with [[Jerry Douglas]] and [[Rob Ickes]]


===As a member of [[The Seldom Scene]]===
===As a member of [[The Seldom Scene]]===

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Mike Auldridge
Mike Auldridge at The Birchmere, December 2006
Mike Auldridge at The Birchmere, December 2006
Background information
Born(1938-12-30)December 30, 1938
Washington, D.C.
DiedDecember 29, 2012(2012-12-29) (aged 73)
Silver Spring, Maryland
GenresBluegrass, Country, Instrumental
Instrument(s)Dobro, Vocals
Years active1960s–2012 (death)
Websitewww.MikeAuldridge.com

Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938 – December 29, 2012) was a Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also worked as a graphic artist.

Biography

Auldridge was born in Washington, D.C.,[1] and grew up in the suburban town of Kensington, Maryland. He attended Wheaton High School and, while in his teens, took classes at the Corcoran College of the Arts and Design.[2] Inspired by his uncle, steel guitarist Ellsworth T. Cozzens who had performed with Jimmie Rodgers during the 1920s, [2] Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13. His main influence through his early years was Josh Graves who also sold him his first Dobro.[3] A 1967 graduate of The University of Maryland, Auldridge worked as a graphic artist for a commercial art firm in Bethesda, Maryland and then for the now defunct Washington Star-News. He did not start playing music full-time until the Washington Star-News folded in 1981.

Auldridge last played with Darren Beachley and The Legends of the Potomac bluegrass band[4] Past bands include Emerson and Waldron, Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass, Seldom Scene (of which he was a founding member), Chesapeake, The Good Deale Bluegrass Band, and John Starling and Carolina Star (which featured three original members of The Seldom Scene). Mike was also a member of the touring bands of Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris.

Auldridge worked with Paul Beard (Beard Guitars) to produce the Beard Mike Auldridge Models of square-neck resophonic guitars (dobro), including an 8-string version.

Just one day prior to his 74th birthday, he died on December 29, 2012, at home under hospice care in Silver Spring, Maryland after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.[5][6]

Awards

Auldridge won numerous awards including a Grammy, Frets Magazine's "Dobro Player of the Year", the International Bluegrass Music Association's Distinguished Achievement Award and was named a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow in 2012.[7]

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1972: Dobro (Takoma)
  • 1974: Blues and Blue Grass (Takoma)
  • 1976: Mike Auldridge (Flying Fish)
  • 1978: Mike Auldridge & 'Old Dog' (Flying Fish)
  • 1978: Slidin' Smoke (Flying Fish) with Jeff Newman
  • 1982: Eight String Swing (Sugar Hill)
  • 1989: High Time (Sugar Hill) with Lou Reid and T. Michael Coleman
  • 1990: Treasures Untold (Sugar Hill)
  • 2000: Tone Poems III (The Sounds Of The Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments) (Acoustic Disc) with Bob Brozman and David Grisman
  • 2014: Three Bells (Rounder) with Jerry Douglas and Rob Ickes

As a member of The Seldom Scene

Also appears on

1971 - 1979

1980 - 1991

References

  1. ^ Allmusic biography
  2. ^ a b McArdle, Terence (2012-12-30). "Mike Auldridge, founding member of D.C.'s Seldom Scene bluegrass group, dies at 73". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  3. ^ Holland, William (November 19, 1972). "Young Man with a Dobro". Washington.
  4. ^ ."Good Deale Bluegrass Band: Band Members". Good Deale Bluegrass Band. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  5. ^ Cooper, Peter (December 29, 2012). "Mike Auldridge, 'hero' of the Dobro, dies at 73". The Tennesseean. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
  6. ^ Morris, David. "RIP Mike Auldridge". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  7. ^ "2012 NEA National Heritage Fellow Mike Auldridge". Lifetime Honors. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
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