Clapton calls on Gill
Gill and Clapton traded licks and smiles during an acoustic set. Clapton introduced his "very good friend, Mr. Vince Gill" to the stage to play on four songs including the Bessie Smith blues standard Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out and his Running on Faith and the 80's song I've Got a Rock and Roll Heart. Gill got a chunk of solo time on all of these songs, including an acoustic version of Layla.
Gill returned to the stage at the end of the night for a solo on the show's encore, the Robert Johnson/Cream classic, Crossroads.
Gill is currently working on his next studio release and will appear with Clapton and nearly 30 other guitarists including Jeff Beck, Sheryl Crow and Buddy Guy at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival on June 26 at Chicago's Toyota Park (www.crossroadsgutarfestival.com). Clapton's current American concert tour continues through March 13.
More news for Vince Gill
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- 07/01/21: Acuff fiddle finds home at Country Hall
- 03/14/21: Prine, Carlile, Dan + Shay win GRAMMYS
- 05/13/19: Gill announces new album
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CD reviews for Vince Gill
At this point in his career, Vince Gill could just as well have entitled this "Tried and True." He's not chasing trends - pop country or bro country - of chart-geared songs. He's too old for that, and at this point anyway, Gill knows what works for him.
And there is quite a lot that works on his first solo album since 2011's "Guitar Slinger." (He did release the excellent "Bakersfield" with Paul Franklin in 2013). Gill prefers a more soulful approach, ...
It's hard to believe, considering what Vince Gill has accomplished over the past three decades, but the triple threat singer-songwriter-guitar picker may be in the most creative, productive stretch of his lengthy, remarkable career. Five years after Gill's Grammy-winning 4-album 43-song box set "These Days," his latest 12-song release again finds Gill tapping every ounce of his immense talents. The title song sums up his reputation as an ax man worthy of playing Eric ...
To put this release into perspective, it would take Axl Rose the better half of a century to issue the same amount of material. Fortunately, Vince Gill is about as prolific as they come these days, and this daring four-disc release only is further proof of that. Each disc is divvied up depending on his mood, with the opening "Working On A Big Chill" album being "The Rockin' Record."
And this album sets things off right with the lovely mid-tempo and groovy title track. ...
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