Doug played a great deal of pedal steel and slack key guitar

on "In California Country".

Doug Pettibone has played guitar with everyone.

Well, maybe not everyone, but close to it.

This a guy who has spent a lifetime putting his consummate

musical skills into backing up  musical icons such as

Mark Knopfler, Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Jewel, and

most recently Lucinda Williams.

He recorded "The West Gate," his debut solo album that

highlights an effortless transition from backup musician

to frontman. Summoning influences from Hank Sr. to

Howlin' Wolf, Pettibone delivers with a style entirely his own.

A style  that Rolling Stone recently opined

"evokes the poetic economy of Keith Richards at his

Exile on Main Street finest.

See Doug on Myspace and read more about this great musician:

www.myspace.com/dougpettibone