The Featured Guitarists On TWANG! By Osborne Jones:

Albert Lee:

Albert Lee is an English guitarist known for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique. Lee has worked, both in the studio and on tour, with many famous musicians including Emmylou Harris and Eric Clapton from a wide range of genres. He has also maintained a solo career and is a noted composer and musical director. Lee has received many awards as a guitarist, winning five consecutive times Guitar Player magazine's "Best Country Guitarist". Lee is known within the music industry for his speed of playing and his technical virtuosity and yet by the same token, one of the most melodic, playing slower passages approximating the sound of the pedal steel guitar with his Music Man and Telecaster guitars which are equipped with B-Benders. He is known as "the guitar player's guitar player". Lee is also referred to as "Mr. Telecaster". Lee's song "Country Boy" helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players

Jerry Donahue:

Jerry Donahue is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters. After moving to England, Donahue soon became a respected member of the developing British folk rock scene. As a band member, he played with Fotheringay and Fairport Convention. Later he recorded and/or toured with artists such as Joan Armatrading, Gerry Rafferty, Robert Plant, Elton John, The Proclaimers, Mick Greenwood, Johnny Hallyday, Gary Wright, Cliff Richard, Chris Rea, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Hank Marvin, Roy Orbison, Nanci Griffith, The Beach Boys and The Yardbirds.

Kenny Vaughan:

Kenny Vaughan is an American guitarist. He is best known as a long-time member of Marty Stuart’s supporting band, The Fabulous Superlatives. Vaughan has been a member of Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives since its inception in 2002. Previously, he toured with Lucinda Williams as she promoted ‘’Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’’. He also has supported Allison Moorer and Kim Richey. Vaughan's solo album is V, made with members of The Fabulous Superlatives and Marty Stuart himself. The album, released in 2011, is a mix of country, rockabilly, and blues songs written by Vaughan, and includes three instrumental tracks. In addition to his session work and touring with the Fabulous Superlatives, Vaughan performs as part of his own trio whenever he returns to Nashville. The Kenny Vaughan Trio also includes Jeffrey Clemens (G Love and Special Sauce) on drums and Dave Roe (Johnny Cash) on bass.

Pete Anderson:

Pete Anderson is most known for his guitar work with, and critically acclaimed production of, country music star Dwight Yoakam from 1984 through 2002, a partnership that resulted in numerous platinum records, sold-out tours, and some music in the Bakersfield and hillbilly traditions. On guitar, Anderson's technical proficiency and versatility allows him to perform a variety of styles, including country, western, rock, rockabilly, soul, blues, Flamenco, Tex-Mex. Among the other artists Anderson has produced are Roy Orbison, The Meat Puppets, Jackson Browne, Michelle Shocked Buck Owens, k.d. Lang, Steve Pryor Band, Lonesome Strangers and Lucinda Williams. He more recently produced Mark Chesnutt's album, Outlaw.

Rick Shea:

Rick Shea is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who lives in Southern California. His career spans four decades and in that time he has worked as a solo artist and with bands such as Chris Gaffney and The Cold Hard Facts and Dave Alvin's Guilty Men. Additionally, Shea fronts his own band, the Losin' End. His influences are many and include the hardcore honky-tonk of Hank Williams as well as a myriad of American artists and international folk musicians. Eclectic in his stance, his live shows entice audiences across the United States and Europe. He’s released ten albums and continues to write, record and produce both his own music and that of other artists.

Will McFarlane:

Will McFarlane spent six years playing guitar with Bonnie Raitt, from 1974 to 1980. McFarlane left Raitt to move to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, playing on records for Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton, Etta James and Johnnie Taylor as part of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. McFarlane has continued to work in secular and gospel music, both traditional and contemporary styles. He has moved back to Muscle Shoals, and plays there, as well as in Nashville, and other places around the country and world, doing sessions and live performances. He was just recently inducted into the Musician's Hall of Fame in Nashville as a friend of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (The Swampers).