Nels Cline live in concert.
ON TOUR

Nels Cline

8
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

84
%
Based on 
8
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Nels Cline is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 8 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Nels Cline is rated as an excellent live performer, with memorable shows that are worth seeing.

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Latest Release

Douglas J. Cuomo: Seven Limbs (27 August 2021)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Los Angeles, United States (1/4/1956)
Bio
Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956) is an American guitarist and composer. Currently he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Wilco.
Has Performed With
​The Nels Cline Singers, The Nels Cline Four, Julian Lage

Critic Concert Reviews

Grateful Web (USA)

February 9, 2024
%
Nels Cline's Consentrik Quartet | The Falcon | 2/7/2024

Exclaim (Canada)

May 22, 2017
100
%
Carre 150, Victoriaville on May 21, 2017

Exclaim (Canada)

July 27, 2015
90
%
Island Stage, Guelph, Canada

Exclaim (Canada)

July 2, 2015
80
%
Nels the elder and Julian the younger brought their ROOM collaboration to life for this session at possibly the greatest acoustic venue the festival has to offer.

Exclaim (Canada)

May 17, 2015
70
%
While he's best known for his years spent with Wilco it's his life's work as a hard-edged improviser and composer that are key.

Grateful Web (USA)

January 21, 2015
%
Over the years as bandleader or featured sideman his approach has little preconception of where the music needs to go or how his audience will respond to it.

Slug Mag (USA)

February 14, 2019
%
The Nels Cline 4 @ The State Room 02.11

Past critic reviews published in

Undertoner (Denmark)

Image Credit

Hreinn Gudlaugsson [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons