Career
Primarily known as a flatpicked acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays many other instruments including mandolin, banjo, and electric guitar. Sutton first came to prominence as part of Ricky Skaggs" bluegrass band Kentucky Thunder. Sutton eventually left the band to focus on session work.
In addition to Skaggs, Sutton has toured with the Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hot Rize, Chris Thile, Tony Rice and others
Bryan was asked to join the seminal bluegrass quartet Hot Rize in 2002. He has toured with them ever since and has only missed one show since they reformed.
The song was recorded using 3 vintage Neumann microphones and a laptop in a Colorado hotel room by Engineer Philosophy Harris. In 2007-2008, Sutton toured with Chris Thile & The How to Grow a Band.
In June, 2011 he launched the Online Bluegrass Guitar School with Bryan Sutton, as part of the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass.
His style is a unique blend of staccato mixed with powerful chormatic and melodic movements which is integrated into the more common bluegrass, blues and folk leads that are common to the genre. Bryan supports Bourgeois Guitars and performs regularly with his own signature model, a Bourgeois Bryan Sutton Limited Edition. He also uses a Bourgeois "Country Boy Deluxe" model dreadnought, and a Bourgeois "Banjo Killer" slope-shouldered dreadnought, which is another model directly inspired by Bryan.
He also regularly performs with a 1940 Martin Doctorate-28.
