Eric Johnson – “Cliffs Of Dover” (1990)

Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is an American guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, New Age, gospel and country and western music into his recordings. Johnson also composes and plays vocal pieces, and is an accomplished pianist. Guitar Player magazine has called Johnson “one of the most respected guitarists on the planet”. Johnson’s stylistic diversity and technical proficiency with the guitar have been praised by Bill Hicks, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, Allan Holdsworth, Larry Carlton, Steve Morse, Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winter, Jeff Baxter, BB King, Joe Satriani and Stevie Ray Vaughan.[citation needed] His critically-acclaimed, platinum-selling 1990 recording Ah Via Musicom produced the single “Cliffs of Dover”, for which Johnson won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Born into a musically-inclined family, Johnson and his three sisters studied piano and his father was a whistling enthusiast. Johnson started learning the guitar at age 11 and rapidly began progressing through the music that would heavily influence his future style, including Eric Clapton, Chet Atkins, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan and Django Reinhardt, among others. At the age of 15, he joined his first professional band—Mariani, a psychedelic rock group. In 1968, Johnson and the group recorded a demo, which saw …
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