Doug Cox

One of Canada's most celebrated instrumentalists, Doug Cox loves "all things slides and strings" -- he's most renowned for his skill on the Dobro resonator guitar, but he's also a sure hand on the bottleneck guitar, National steel guitar, Weissenborn, mandolin, and Mohan Veena. A native of Cumberland, a village on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Cox began playing guitar in the '80s, and was playing slide guitar in the bottleneck style until he saw a performance by Dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas in the late '80s. Immediately inspired by the Dobro's unique tone and Douglas' ...