Wilco guitarist Nels Cline has long been hailed for his skill and stylistic diversity, as befits a six-string master who has collaborated with such varied artists as Rickie Lee Jones, Phil Lesh, Mike Watt, Anthony Braxton, Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright and Wadada Leo Smith.
"I don't have an agenda, other than to make the music resonate and make the person whose music it is happy with the results," said Cline, whose other guitar work is also featured on albums by everyone from Elvis Costello and Joan Osborne to John Zorn and Henry Kaiser.
Surprisingly, given his remarkably eclectic resume, the Los Angeles native had a very different artistic focus when he launched his career four decades ago.
