PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Musical Cline Twins March to Different Beats

Drummer Alex and guitarist Nels grew up as jazz hounds around L.A., yet they ended up taking parallel but divergent paths. For a pair of identical twins, it's surprisingly easy to tell Nels and Alex Cline apart. Dressed in a T-shirt and dark, slim-cut jeans, spiky-haired Nels Cline looks the part of distinguished "guitar god," even at 52 years old. Rolling Stone paid the angular musician the compliment in 2007 after he rose through the L.A. jazz and improvised music scene to join Wilco, a ...

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