Johnny Hiland

Johnny Hiland: Chicken Pickin' Guitar An entertaining and instructive lesson in bluegrass picking from one of the best! Meet one of Nashvilles true guitar stars Johnny Hiland as he takes you through some key aspects of country playing. System Requirements:Running Time: 80 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEO...	Nashville Guitars	Get Inside	88 Elmira St. Danny Gatton ranks with rock & roll's all-time tragic guitar heros. One of the 1980s' greatest guitarists--and unquestionably one of the most eclectic and versatile axe-men ever--he committed suicide in 1994 without achieving the kind of fame his talent should have provided. Thou...	Sometime Tuesday Morning A veteran of long years on the Boston club scene and a stint as sideman to former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, guitarist Johnny A. originally self-released this masterful, tasteful solo record to much local acclaim, and then guitar ace Steve Vai added the musician to the ro...
Telewacker	Triple Stop	Two-Lane Blacktop Two-Lane Blacktop is an instrumental guitar album that has a style and class all its own, from Nashville guitar player Bill Hullett. The album includes eight original songs along with four classics. Bill's compositions push the boundries of guitar playing and create a beautiful ...	No Stranger to a Tele The title of this CD refers to Redd Volkaert's tenure as guitarist in Merle Haggard's band, the Strangers, and the Fender Telecaster that he wields with such agility. Instrumentals like the title tune, with its musical reference to Haggard's "Mama Tried," and "Diminishing Flames"...	Johnny Hiland: Bluegrass Guitar DVD This is Johnny's second video for Hot Licks, made at the same time as his electric tape on Chicken Pickin'. Johnny Hiland is a true multi-instrumentalist, and a giant talent who's fame is deservedly rising rapidly. He's a great acoustic Bluegrass picker, and on this tape he reall...

Amazing CD!!!
This guy is amazing as hell. I suggest buying this if you play guitar. Don't listen to these guys giving this CD 2 stars hell even 3 stars saying is not what they expected. Never expect anything from a CD you'll only be dissapointed and just listen to the music and enjoy it! Everyone should check out this guy hes amazing.

Amazing !
I play the guitar , but will never get anywhere near this man's ability . A number of different styles are featured and it is great driving music for the open road . A great band backs Johnny up and you can hear they had a good time making this record . It can be a bit much to take in one sitting and I recommend you come back to it as you see fit .

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Eponimous guitar instrumental CD. 43 mins. There are two reasons why you should check this out, (1) Johnny Hiland was/is a Nashville session guitarist and everyone knows (or should know) that they are a breed apart (all hail!), (2) it is produced by Steve Vai. Hmmm, you say, a country guitarist who can shred? And that's about right but not the whole story. I thought, at first, that the album was a portfolio or resume type affair and there is a little of that about it - more of a collection of (for want of a better word) stuff than a coherant whole. But I've come round and have enjoyed the album more the more I've played it. There is a lot of good country type stuff and some jazzier stuff, some mellow (slightly cheesy but nice) stuff but the influence of Vai is there even to the extent of the 'out takes' that creep in to certain tracks (a la Alien Love Secrets - a master piece) - I like that by the way, bit of humour never hurts. There is no doubt Hiland is up there with the best of country players and also that he can do the tapping, shred stuff although with less distortion and no wah that might be expected from the heavier shredders. I would love to see him live and would love to hear him play some blues. But most of all I think next time (I hope there is a next time) he should focus on what he regards as his 'thang'. We know he can play now let's hear what he WANTS to play. A short word for the backing musicians who are excellent, I mean EXCELLENT, with the bass solos (with harmonics thrown in for goodness sake!!) on some of the tracks totally outrageous- respect to them and to Johnny for giving them the space to be heard.

Johnny Hiland CD
Johnny Hiland is an excellent country/country swing guitar player. This CD not only showcases his country playing but also shows us he can play several other styles like Via/Satriani rock. I first saw Johnny a couple of years ago at the NAMM show in Anaheim where hes was demonstrating for Fender. There was a crowd of folks around him getting into his contry playing. I would say his rock playing and songwriting although technically excellent are nothing you haven't heard before. I think his country playing is unique and hard to beat. I would buy this CD again if I lost it.

Chick'n Pick'n
Albert Lee is still the King of Chick'n Pick'n. But its good to see someone else do it too. I just wished that guitar playing in Country styled music would go in a different direction for once, other than the chick'n pick'n.