1. Rusty Anderson is an American musician best known for his work as lead guitarist for Paul McCartney's touring band since 2001.
19 Facts About Rusty Anderson
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Rusty Anderson has worked with an extensive list of other artists in addition to his own solo career.
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Later, Rusty Anderson formed The Living Daylights, which shared the stage with Fishbone and OMD.
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The Living Daylights put out a record on the Greenworld Label, but subsequently disbanded when Rusty Anderson signed a solo development deal at Columbia Records.
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Rusty Anderson's second album Born on Earth was released October 2009.
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Rusty Anderson's third release was a compilation album titled Until We Meet Again, and released in the spring of 2012 with pre-release copies available during the winter 2011 leg of Paul McCartney's On the Run tour.
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Now officially a band, Rusty Anderson Afternoon released their first single, "Effortless", on April 30,2013.
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Rusty Anderson Afternoon was a featured act at SXSW 2014.
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In 2019, Rusty Anderson Afternoon performed at the Duesenberg Imperial Charity Ball.
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Rusty Anderson performed with McCartney at the Super Bowl twice, in 2002 and 2005.
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Rusty Anderson played guitar on McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard in 2005 and contributed guitar and vocals to the 2007 release, Memory Almost Full.
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Rusty Anderson took part in Good Evening New York City, playing lead guitar on its Grammy winning song "Helter Skelter", and Good Evening Europe.
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Rusty Anderson continued performing during the Summer Live '09 Tour and the Up and Coming Tour.
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McCartney released New in 2013 on which Rusty Anderson played guitar and sang backing vocals.
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Rusty Anderson won critical praise during the tour for the many highlights he contributed to the musical arrangements.
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In 2015, Rusty Anderson performed with McCartney on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC.
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Argentina's La Nacion said during the tour "Rusty Anderson is the virtuoso of the six strings, the greatest rocker of all".
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Rusty Anderson's recordings include music by Elton John, Little Richard, New Radicals, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Michael Buble, Sinead O'Connor, the Wallflowers, Jewel, Santana, Stevie Nicks, Ronan Keating, Joe Cocker, and the surf riff in Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca", inducted in 2022 into the National Recording Registry of the USLibrary of Congress.
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Rusty Anderson has performed live with such notables as Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Doug Pinnick, Ron Wood, Rihanna, Robbie Krieger, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Walsh, Dave Grohl, Slash, Steve Lukather, Joe Sumner, Mary Bridget Davies, Bob Weir, Brittany Howard, Diana Krall, Krist Novoselic, and Wayne Kramer; Anderson has played "The Star Spangled Banner" live on solo guitar at Dodger Stadium.