THERE BY GRACE

TG Editor Chris Bird reflects on a guitarist who defies categorisation...

- Chris Bird

As this month’s mag production schedule was nearing its end, we began to consider the guitarists who hadn’t made our top 100. Had the polls delivered a representative spectrum of guitarists? Had we forgotten anyone vital? You see, making a longlist of guitarists is easy; cutting them back to 100 is the real challenge, and many of our favourite players had to fall by the wayside. For me, it was Jeff Buckley, and for one key reason.