While rock legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Slash typically dominate the "best guitarist ever" conversations, country music is no slouch when it comes to producing legendary shredders.
The nominees for Album of the Year in the 2016 Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards are an interesting mix of young and veteran artists, working in a variety of commercial and more cutting-edge aspects of the format to encompass everything that's great about country music right now.
Over the course of six months Chris Stapleton has flipped country music on its head, taken it over, set it back upright, and patted it on its head like a good lil boy. He and his album Traveller have won CMAs, ACMs, and GRAMMYs.
He has the most downloaded country album since November...