Guitar Slinger
Studio album by Vince Gill
Released	October 25, 2011 (2011-10-25)
Genre	Country
Length	53:57
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Vince Gill John Hobbs Justin Niebank
Vince Gill chronology
Icon (2010) Guitar Slinger (2011) Ballads (2013)
Singles from Guitar Slinger
"Threaten Me with Heaven" Released: August 29, 2011

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Country Weekly	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A[4]
The Independent	[5]
PopMatters	[6]
Slant Magazine	[7]
USA Today	[8]

Guitar Slinger is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released on October 25, 2011 via MCA Nashville.^[9] A deluxe edition was also released with three bonus tracks.^[10]

Lead-off single "Threaten Me with Heaven" received a nomination on the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and also a nomination for Song of the Year on the 47th Academy of Country Music Awards.

Credits from European version:

• Vince Gill – lead vocals, electric guitar (1-8, 10, 11, 12, 14), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 4, 6-15), backing vocals (6, 8, 10), banjo (11), mandolin (11)
• John Hobbs – acoustic piano (1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14), keyboards (2), Hammond B3 organ (3-6, 8, 9, 13, 14), accordion (11)
• Pete Wasner – synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ (1, 7), Wurlitzer electric piano (3, 5, 8) acoustic piano (4, 9, 11), Rhodes (4), Wurlitzer organ (10)
• Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (1, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13), electric guitar (4, 14)
• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10)
• Al Anderson – electric guitar (2)
• Tom Britt – electric guitar (3, 9, 15)
• Will Owsley – electric guitar (4, 7)
• Andy Riess – electric guitar (15)
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar (1, 2, 10, 12-15), dobro (5)
• Russ Pahl – steel guitar (9)
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar (1, 5, 10)
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11-14)
• David Hungate – bass guitar (8, 9)
• Dennis Crouch – upright bass (15)
• Chad Cromwell – drums (1, 3-8, 10, 11)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (2, 12, 13, 14)
• Rick Vanaugh – drums (15)
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Larry Franklin – fiddle (12, 13)
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle (15)
• Kenny Sears – fiddle (15)
• Joe Spivey – fiddle (15)
• Bekka Bramlett – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 15)
• Jenny Gill – backing vocals (1-7, 9, 10)
• Chris Stapleton – backing vocals (2, 3, 4)
• Billy Thomas – backing vocals (2, 3, 4, 5, 15), drums (9)
• Amy Grant – backing vocals (4, 8), lead vocals (8)
• Kim Keyes – backing vocals (4)
• Gene Miller – backing vocals (4, 7)
• Dawn Sears – backing vocals (5, 13)
• Jeff White – backing vocals (5, 9, 11, 15)
• Ashley Monroe – backing vocals (6)
• Sarah Chapman – backing vocals (8)
• Andrea Zonn – backing vocals (9, 11), fiddle (11)
• Corrina Gill – backing vocals (9)
• Wes Hightower – backing vocals (12, 13)
• Lee Ann Womack – backing vocals (12)
• Sonya Isaacs – backing vocals (14)
• Sarah Siskind – backing vocals (14)

As of December 2015, the album had sold 102,000 copies.^[11]

• Guitar Slinger at Metacritic