biographical info
Doug Cox is a roots music renaissance man. From his bucolic home in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island the slide guitar and dobro master has carved-out an amazingly diverse career as a recording artist and touring musician who has played festivals, clubs and concert halls across Canada and the United States and around the world from Dobrofest in Slovakia to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
An acclaimed educator, Cox has produced a series of instructional video-CD-book packages to teach slide guitar, dobro and blues playing. He also finds time to serve as artistic director for two of the west coast’s most popular music festivals, and to his credit, Cox organizes all his varied music business activities so he can spend as much time as possible with his wife and three young daughters.
The Boston Globe has called him “one of the world’s most expressive dobro players.”
influences
Doug Sahm
Jerry Douglas
Leo Kottke
Louis Armstrong
Ry Cooder