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A studio veteran with thousands of sessions to his credit, Richard Bennett is also an ace producer and Mark Knopfler’s longtime guitar foil. But to instrumental guitar fanatics, he’s the keeper of the flame for a style of guitar instrumental music that’s been largely forgotten.
Richard Bennett (born July 22, 1951) is an American guitarist and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session musician, he has worked with Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Rodney Crowell, and Vince Gill.
Richard Bennett is one sweet, swinging, soulful, cool rocking jazzbo cowboy guitar player. He won't tell you that. But everyone who's played with him or just heard him play sure will.
The compositions are exquisitely crafted scores with melodies that carry the listener on dreamy flights of fantasy, up and down the fretboards of various guitars that can only be made to sound the way they do in the hands of Richard Bennett.
13 de nov. de 2020 · Richard Bennett is THE most successful side man I’ve had on this show. He’s also as humble as he is talented. He’s been Mark Knopfler’s guitar player in the studio and on the road since 1994 (26 yrs), and spent 17 years before that as Neil Diamond’s guitar player – again, both studio and touring.
3 de dic. de 2022 · Richard Bennett has been a studio and touring guitarist with Mark Knopfler, since 1994… and he spent 17 years & 12 LPs before that in the same role with Neil Diamond. He’s also produced Neil Diamond, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Jo-El Sonnier, Marty Stuart & others.
11 de sept. de 2020 · Nashville studio legend Richard Bennett plugged his Eastman Uptown AR-810 into a ’67 Benson 200 to play “Squisto,” from his new album, “Code Red Cloud Nine.”.
