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Nels Cline
US rock/jazz guitarist and composer
Since 1956
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Nels Courtney Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. He has been a guitarist for the band Wilco since 2004.
In the 1980s he played jazz, often in collaboration with his twin brother Alex, a percussionist. He has worked with musicians in punk and alternative rock such as Carla Bozulich and the Geraldine Fibbers, Mike Watt and Thurston Moore. He leads the Nels Cline Singers, Nels Cline Trio, and the Nels Cline 4.
Cline was named the 82nd greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2011.
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Nels Cline, né le 4 janvier 1956 à Los Angeles, est un guitariste et compositeur américain. Il est un membre actif du groupe de rock alternatif Wilco.
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Discography
Albums
- 1981 Elegies
- 1988 Angelica
- 1997 Pillow Wand
- 1998 Rise Pumpkin Rise
- 1998 Edible Flowers
- 1999 Interstellar Space Revisted: The Music of John Coltrane
- 2000 The Inkling
- 2001 Destroy All Nels Cline
- 2004 Ash and Tabula. Out Trios Volume Three
- 2004 Graduation
- 2004 The Entire Time
- 2004 Buried on Bunker Hill
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- 2005 Immolation/Immersion
- 2006 New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill
- 2007 Downpour
- 2009 Coward
- 2010 Floored By Four
- 2010 DIRTY BABY
- 2012 Jazz Free
- 2012 The Gowanus Session
- 2012 Open the Door
- 2014 The Woodstock Sessions, Vol. 2
- 2014 Room
- 2015 Accidental Sky
- 2016 Lovers
- 2019 What Is to Be Done
- 2020 Gowanus Sessions II
- 2020 Music From the Early 21st Century
- 2020 Bow Shoulder
- 2022 THE ART SPIRIT - Ben Goldberg, Nels Cline, Tom Rainey Live at the Owl Music Parlor
- 2025 Trio of Bloom
- 2025 Consentrik Quartet
Singles
- 2013 Racy
- 2018 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
- 2025 Bacha Hamou
