Vince Gillis a living legend in country music. After some brief stints in bands throughout his teens and 20s, Gill started his solo career in Nashville in the early 1980s. He started playing the guitar at averyearly age, as his father, who was was a lawyer and administrative law judge, ...
By high school, Gill’s talents were becoming harder to ignore. He played with a series of local bluegrass bands, performing in Oklahoma City bars with the local favorite Mountain Smoke. One night, they opened for the country rock band Pure Prairie League, a group that would play a substant...
Gill, who became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007, has subsequently played a role in inducting several other acts, includingRascal FlattsandLittle Big Town, into the Grand Ole Opry. The singer remains one of the regular performers at the Opry, and he's even spoken out ...
WhenVince Gilljoinedthe Eagleslast month for his first rehearsal with the storied band, ahead of the group’stwo reunion showsat July festival gigs in New York and L.A., the country singer-guitarist had to pinch himself. “It was a surreal experience,” he says, sitting on ...
in the museum’s permanent collection—including Maybelle Carter’s 1928 Gibson L-5 guitar and Bill Monroe’s 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin,” said Gill. “The fiddle was given to Acuff by soldiers during a time of war because of how much he meant to them. He meant a lot to ...