As if playing alongside seminal country artists like Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack and Wynonna Judd wasn’t enough, Nashville-based Tele-toter Rob McNelley is a three-time winner of the Academy of Country Music’s Guitar Player of the Year.
It’s well-earned – with his twangy yet bluesy and soulful sound filling the airwaves, McNelley is proud when he reflects on the sessions that mean the most. “There’s a lot of them,” he says. “But when I recorded Need You Now with Lady Antebellum [now known as Lady A – Ed], that was such a big song that it put me out there. When everybody seemed to find out about me, it was because of that song.”
