One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early 1980s, many celebrated guitarists were singing the praises of this skinny kid from Austin with the mind-melting chops. With the release of his 1986 solo debut album “Tones”, the underground guitar legend landed him on the cover of “Guitar Player” magazine, which hailed the album as a “majestic debut”, and earned him his first Grammy nomination for the song “Zap”. With the release of his follow-up album, 1990’s platinum-selling “Ah Via Musicom”, which contained the Grammy Award-winning song “Cliffs of Dover”, Johnson became a bona fide international guitar phenomenon.