Cindy Cashdollar - Topic

Cindy Cashdollar is an American musician specializing in steel guitar and dobro. She grew up in Woodstock, New York, where she perfected her skills by playing with bluegrass musician John Herald, blues musician Paul Butterfield, and Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band. After residing in Austin, Texas, for 23 years, she has now returned to her native Woodstock, New York.
Cashdollar received five Grammy Awards while playing for eight years with Asleep at the Wheel, and has also backed performers such as Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone, Redd Volkaert, Carla Olson and Ryan Adams as a member of his band The Cardinals. In August 2019, Cashdollar recorded dobro and lap steel on "Save Your Love For Me" the new Grayson Hugh record. In 2003, the Academy of Western Artists recognized Cashdollar as Instrumentalist of the Year Award in the Western Swing Music genre. She was inducted into The Austin Chronicle Hall of Fame in 2011–12.
She authored a series of instructional videos on her instruments and released her first solo album, Slide Show, in 2004.
During the fall of 2004 she was a member of Ryan Adams's band The Cardinals, playing the steel guitar live on stage.