Mark Casstevens
Musician · Fort Worth, Texas
Mark Casstevens is one of the most-recorded acoustic guitarists in Nashville history, a first-call session player who accompanied more than 250 artists across a decades-long studio career. He is widely credited with crafting the acoustic-guitar intros that open many of country's biggest hits.
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- Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to Nashville in 1971 after college.
- Played on hundreds of albums and dozens of #1 country singles.
- One of the “G-Men,” the core studio band on Garth Brooks's albums, and wrote the acoustic intros to many of his songs.
- Recorded with Dolly Parton, Randy Travis, George Jones, and Emmylou Harris, among many others.
- Released the solo fingerstyle album Acoustic Inventions (2004).
- As a teen he played five-string banjo in a Fort Worth bluegrass trio.
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Mac WisemanPlayed on recordings with Mac Wiseman
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Linda RonstadtPlayed on recording with Linda Ronstadt
