Lookout for Hope (Jerry Douglas album)

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Lookout for Hope
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 7, 2002
Genre Progressive bluegrass, country
Length48:29
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas chronology
Restless on the Farm
(1998)
Lookout for Hope
(2002)
The Best Kept Secret
(2005)
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Lookout for Hope is the eighth solo album by dobro player Jerry Douglas, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). It reached number 5 on the Billboard Top New Age chart. The title piece was written by guitarist Bill Frisell who released an album with the same title in 1988.

Dobro American guitar brand

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. In popular usage, the term is also used as a generic trademark for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.

Jerry Douglas American bluegrass musician

Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas is an American resonator guitar and lap steel guitar player and record producer.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.

Contents

Guest musicians include Maura O'Connell, Sam Bush, James Taylor, Trey Anastasio and Jeff Coffin.

Maura OConnell Irish singer

Maura O'Connell is an Irish singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretations of Irish folk songs, strongly influenced by American country music.

Sam Bush American musician

Charles Samuel Bush is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music.

James Taylor American singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jerry Douglas, unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Little Martha" Duane Allman 3:41
2."Patrick Meets the Brickbats" 3:22
3."Footsteps Fall" Annette Bjergfeldt, Boo Hewerdine 4:48
4."Monkey Let the Hogs Out" 1:02
5."Lookout for Hope" Bill Frisell 10:24
6."Cave Bop" 3:20
7."Senia's Lament" 5:25
8."The Wild Rumpus" 4:02
9."The Sinking Ship" 5:05
10."In the Sweet By and By" Joseph Philbrick Webster; Sanford Fillmore Bennett1:59
11."The Suit" Hugh Prestwood 5:21
Total length:48:29

Personnel

Chris Thile American musician

Christopher Scott Thile is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. In October 2016, he became the host of the radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion, which in December 2017 was renamed Live from Here.

Jeff Coffin American musician

Jeff Coffin is a saxophonist, composer, and educator. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones with whom he performed from 1997 until 2010. In July 2008, Coffin began touring with Dave Matthews Band and joined the group in 2009 following the death of founding member LeRoi Moore. He also leads his group Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet.

Stuart Duncan American musician

Stuart Duncan is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo.

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Chart positions

YearChartPosition
2002Billboard Top New Age Albums5

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