Spencer Cullum

With an arm’s length list of credits stretching from the likes of Kesha, Caitlin Rose and Deer Tick, to Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town, pedal steel savant Spencer Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. That’s in addition to making up half of acclaimed, primarily instrumental space-country duo, Steelism.

Clearly he’s had little trouble fitting in since moving from his native London to Music City by way of Detroit, even if it’s mostly meant blending into the background. “I guess I’ve always hidden behind the instrument..... I’m always the guy who looks like he’s studying for a test in the background.”