He's won Grammy Awards, Guitar Player magazine's Best Country Guitarist award five times in a row, honored at the U.K. Americana Awards with the Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award, and Eric Clapton has called him "the greatest guitarist in the world."
What more do you need to know?! OK, we'll keep going. In addition to backing Clapton for five years in the late ’70s, he has toured and recorded with the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, the Crickets, and Joe Cocker. The British guitarist is also world-renowned for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking techniques.
"One of the finest guitar players who ever walked this Earth." — Vince Gill