Paul Nelson (musician)
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| Genres | Rock, blues, pop, funk, R&B |
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| Instruments | Guitar |
| Labels | Sony, Virgin, Sony Japan, EMI, Megaforce, Mascot, Friday Music, Warner, Metal Blade, Lion, Century Media, Drive-Thru, Cleopatra Records, NBC, WWE, TNN |
| Associated acts | Johnny Winter, Paul Nelson Band |
| Website | paulnelsonguitar |
Paul Nelson is a Grammy-winning American guitarist, performer, record producer, and songwriter. Who has worked with everyone from Eric Clapton to members of the Allman Brothers Band and the list goes on. He was in the blues rock band of guitarist/singer icon Johnny Winter. He produced and played on several of Winter's albums, including the Grammy-nominated I'm a Blues Man, Roots, Step Back. The latter of these won him a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart for Blues Albums and Independent Albums, and debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the highest spot in Winter's career. It also won the Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album. Nelson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the distinguished KBA award from the Blues Foundation. He received a 59th Grammy nomination for his work as producer and performer on Joe Louis Walker's Everybody Wants a Piece.
Paul Nelson is credited as being a composer and performer for music heard on international and national television broadcasts such as NBC, TNN, and UPN, as well as for the WWF. His solo guitar work can be heard on his first solo CD, entitled Look. He also performed on the Halifax song "Anthem For Tonight" from their album Inevitability of a Strange World, and featured on the Xbox 360 game Prey. Nelson also produced many albums, including 13 albums for Johnny Winter's successful Live Bootleg series (all breaking the top 10 in Billboard Blues Charts), the Live Through The 70s and the Live Through The 80s DVDs as well as his Live From Rockpalast and Live From Japan DVDs.
He produced and performed on blues guitarist/singer Joe Louis Walker's Grammy-nominated album Everybody Wants a Piece; a James Montgomery album; a Leo "Bud" Welch album; Lance Lopez's Live From NYC; and the sessions for a Junior Wells' album.
He executive produced and appeared in the Johnny Winter documentary Down And Dirty, directed by Greg Oliver and also appeared in the documentary Sidemen: Long Road To Glory. along side Greg Allman, Bonnie Rait, Elvin Bishop, Pintop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin and many others.
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