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A great attraction at Guitar Center Village was the Ernie Ball Stage, which hosted Master Guitar Clinics starting at 10:15 a.m. to mid-afternoon. The clinics were led by an all-star list of guitarists from the main Crossroads Guitar Festival's line up. Concert goers joined some of the true masters of their craft, including Albert Lee, Bert Jansch, Joe Bonamassa, Sonny Landreth, and Stefan Grossman, as well as pedal steel impresario Robert Randolph. Acoustic virtuoso Pete Huttlinger and Ryan McGarvey, winner of the "Ernie Ball Play Crossroads" contest, also got a chance to shine on the Ernie Ball Stage.
Finally, to round out this amazing series of demonstrations and discussions we were proud to announce that Hubert Sumlin was joined by 95-year-old bluesman Honeyboy Edwards - the last surviving guitarist to have played with blues legend Robert Johnson.
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Albert Lee
Albert Lee was born on December 21, 1943, in Herefordshire, England. He grew up in Blackheath. Lee was with a variety of bands from 1959 onwards, playing mostly R&B, country music and rock and roll. Lee first experienced commercial success as the lead guitarist with Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds. Read more.
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch, legendary songwriter and guitarist, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of all time. Since the mid 1960s, generation after generation have been held spellbound by his extraordinary groundbreaking guitar playing and classic emotive songs. Bert began performing his unique synthesis of folk, blues and jazz on the folk scene of the early 1960s. Read more.
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards
David "Honeyboy" Edwards was born June 28, 1915 in Shaw, Mississippi. Honeyboy is one of the last living links to Robert Johnson, and one of the last original acoustic Delta blues players. He is a living legend, and his story is truly part of history. Read more.
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Hubert Sumlin
When Hubert Sumlin plays guitar he takes you to his World of Blues Feeling -- from despair to ecstasy, from delicate grace to raw power, from lost to found. Though he's influenced and inspired many of the most famous guitar players, Hubert owns the magic. Read more.
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Joe Bonamassa
As Joe Bonamassa grows his reputation as one of the world's greatest guitar players, he is also evolving into a charismatic blues-rock star and singer-songwriter of stylistic depth and emotional resonance. His ability to connect with live concert audiences is transformational. Read more.
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Pete Huttlinger
Pete Huttlinger has performed on numerous Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated projects. He has also been nominated for music he both composed and performed for a PBS special. Read more.
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Robert Randolph
"We wanted to take our time and find ourselves," says Robert Randolph. "Find out what was really inside of me and the band and bring that out. Really try to come up with the best songs, dig deep within, and let all of the experiences that we have had in the last three years come out in the music." Read more.
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Sonny Landreth
From the Reach, Sonny Landreth's ninth album, is the first to be released on his own Landfall label. On it, the Louisiana-based slide-guitar wizard does something unprecedented in his body of work, as he collaborates with five of the greatest guitar players on the planet — Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill — in some jaw-dropping performances. Read more.
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Stefan Grossman
In a sense, we have his father's aversion to the saxophone to thank for Stefan Grossman's lifelong engagement with the acoustic guitar. It entered his life as his brother Karl, three years Stefan's senior, took up the saxophone. After a few squawk-filled weeks, Herbert Grossman wasn't happy. Read more.
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