Johnny Bellar is a virtuoso performer on resophonic and lap steel guitars. Often called a Dobro after the first and most famous manufacturer of this instrument, the resophonic guitar has recently become a pervasive voice in modern recordings of country, rock and popular music. An acoustic instrument invented in the USA in the 1920's and usually played with a metal slide, the resophonic has a mysterious, dark and compelling voice. Only the human voice seems able to match this instrument in tonal shadings and in the expressions of emotion and there is a current explosion of interest in the instrument that is keeping Bellar busy.