“They’ll go, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t tell you what to do.’ But then you hear the record later and you’re not on it! They took you off and there’s a saxophone solo on there instead”: Ace session guitarist Brent Mason reveals how he made it to the top

Brent Mason.

World-renowned session musician Brent Mason has played guitar on hit records for some of the biggest-selling country music stars of all time, including Shania Twain and George Strait among many others.

But as he tells MusicRadar, it took a while for him to figure out that he was a better off playing guitar than writing songs.