Gary Lucas

Gary Lucas is an accomplished and wildly eclectic guitarist who is equally skilled on electric and acoustic instruments. Lucas' body of work runs the gamut from experimental rock to international folk music, and he's collaborated with artists as diverse as Jeff Buckley and Leonard Bernstein. When Gary Lucas was nine, his dad suggested he take up playing the guitar. Although he followed his dad's suggestion, Lucas focused more on the French horn that he played for his elementary-school band, and continued to play that instrument until getting kicked out of his high-school ban...