Tuck Andress

Overview

Submitted by guitar-list on Tue, 2014-12-23 13:41

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Tuck Andress is a guitarist born October 25, 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Best known as half of the guitar/vocal duo, Tuck & Patti. Considered one of the finest guitarists in the world, his masterful fingerpicking technique allows him to sound as if three separate guitars are playing at once.

Tuck Andress and his wife, Patti Cathcart Andress,(Tuck and Patti) have released several albums on the Windham Hill label, as well as on Epic Records and 33rd Street Records. The duo has been very successful with multiple albums hitting the top ten on the Contemporary Jazz Charts.

Andress used to be a session performer for The Gap Band.

His neice is singer-songwriter Annie Clark who performs under the name St. Vincent. Read more about Tuck Andress on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.