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Nels Cline

US rock/jazz guitarist and composer

Los Angeles, United States • b. 1956-01-04

Nels Cline is credited on 220 releases across 167 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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220

Pressings credited

167

Albums

6

Decades active

376

In collections

Biography

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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Credited work

220 releases · 167 albums · active 1977–2025

  • Performance · 372
  • Other credits · 81
  • Production · 21
  • Engineering · 12

Studios: NewZone Studios · Fantasy Studios · Sunset Sound · The Knitting Factory

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