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Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative and original guitarists active today. Combining breathtaking technique with an informed musical intelligence, the self-taught Cline displays a mastery of guitar expression that encompasses delicate lyricism, sonic abstractions, and skull-crunching flights of fancy, inspiring Jazz Times to call him "The World's Most Dangerous Guitarist." In the late 1970s, Cline formed the influential chamber-jazz group Quartet. Since then, Cline has performed on over 100 albums in the jazz, pop, rock, country, and experimental music genres. In addition to his latest trio, The Nels Cline Singers, Cline is also the lead guitarist for the critically acclaimed rock band Wilco, which he joined in 2004. In that same year the Nels Cline Singers released Giant Pin, which Cline followed with an album in 2006, the sublime New Monastery. Draw Breath, another Nels Cline Singers album, was released in the summer of 2007. Add to that all the sideman work he's done since the turn of the century, and you've got one extremely busy and extremely versatile guitarist.