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Slide/Steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar steps out on new release,
Waltz For Abilene

Now available wherever you buy music

Featuring guest artists including Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Marcia Ball, John Sebastian, Rory Block, Amy Helm, and Ray Benson

Waltz for Abilene
Photo by Sergio Kurhajec

Tracks

  • Foggy Mt. Rock
    with Albert Lee
  • That's No Way For Me To Get Along
    with Rory Block
  • Sey Seychelles
    with Sonny Landreth
  • Skylark
    with Jake Langley
  • Peacock Alley
    with Ray Benson, Derek O'Brien, Mike Flanigin
  • How Many More Years
    with Omar Kent Dykes
  • Salvation
    with Marcia Ball
  • In The Heart Of This Town
    with Arlen Roth
  • Ring Them Bells
    with Amy Helm
  • Memphis Blues
    with Albert Lee
  • O Susanna
  • This Train
    with John Sebastian
  • Waltz For Abilene
    with Larry Campbell

Dobro, lap steel and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar, five-time Grammy recipient, has a beautiful new self-produced release, Waltz for Abilene on her own Silver Shot Records label. She’s gathered together an all-star line up of musical guests on a collection of thirteen stellar instrumentals and vocals, from traditional songs to her own poignant Waltz for Abilene, inviting friends to play and sing on selected tracks, an approach that held up from her first release, Slide Show. From Americana and the blues to bayou and swing, the sublime beauty of Waltz for Abilene embodies the spirit of an artist whose musical touch transcends any genre.

Photo by Michael Bloom

Cindy Cashdollar grew up in Woodstock, New York. Cashdollar is an old local family name. Her great-uncle Albert Cashdollar was the Town Supervisor and the family ran Locust Grove Dairy. The whole musical community watched as Cindy’s talent swiftly grew on the Dobro and then lap steel as she played with everyone in town during the late 1970s and ‘80s, The demand for her musical touch led her to touring and performing regionally with local Woodstock luminaries Levon Helm, Rick Danko, bluegrass singer John Herald, blues legend Paul Butterfield, and folk heroes Happy & Artie Traum. However, in 1992 her restless musical quest took her to Nashville where she met and landed a job with America’s premiere Western Swing group Asleep At The Wheel, leading her to Austin. Expanding her instrumental prowess to the steel guitar, Cindy’s taste and style added to the band’s sound as she toured and recorded with them for nine years. During her time with the band she had the chance to collaborate with legends such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton and Lyle Lovett, among others, and won five Grammys. Upon leaving AATW to once again engage in a wider variety of music, the names of those who sought her out and hired her to add fire and sweetness to their music are lifted out of the record books: Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan (on his Grammy winning Time Out of Mind album), Van Morrison, Dave Alvin, John Sebastian, Rod Stewart, Albert Lee, Sonny Landreth, Marcia Ball, Rory Block, Jorma Kaukonen, Leon Redbone, Peter Rowan …and on and on. She was the first woman to be inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame, also inducted into the Texas Music Hall Of Fame, and has been a nominee for Instrumentalist Of The Year by the Americana Music Association. In 2022 the revered Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum added Cindy to their “Nashville Cats” roster, which honors side musicians for their contributions to recordings and live performances.

Biography By Brian Hollander