Nels Cline

Wilco’s newest member Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative, and original guitarists active today. Combining breathtaking technique with an informed musical intelligence, Cline displays a mastery of guitar expression that encompasses delicate lyricism, sonic abstractions, and skull-crunching flights of fancy, inspiring Jazz Times to call him “The World’s Most Dangerous Guitarist.” LA-based, his influences include Hendrix, Jeff Beck, John Fahey, and numerous musicians of the improvising avant-garde, and he’s worked with a wide array of artists from Charlie Haden and Tim Berne to Thurston Moore and Zeena Parkins.