Cody Kilby
Cody Kilby (born 1981) is an American bluegrass guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and session musician. Raised as a musical prodigy in Cowan, Tennessee, he began playing the banjo at age eight, earned a Gibson instrument endorsement at eleven, and recorded his debut multi-instrumental album, Just Me, for Rebel Records at age sixteen. After winning the National Mandolin Championship in 1996 and the National Flatpicking Championship in 1998, Kilby spent fourteen years as the lead acoustic guitarist for Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. In 2015, he transitioned to The Travelin' McCourys, continuing his extensive work as a top-tier Nashville session guitarist and earning the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Guitar Player of the Year award in both 2022 and 2024.
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- No. 26 Spring 2001