Getting Lost in Guitar World with Lindsay Ell

“I can play for hours and hours at a time,” says country artist Lindsay Ell. “When I’m home I can honestly have my amp going most of the day and time slips away from me when I’m in guitar world (as) I call it. It just brings me into a different place.”

But it’s not just “most of the day” either. As she’s captioned before along with one of many middle of the night noodling sessions on Instagram, “I’ll apologize to my neighbors one of these days.”

Considering her emotive and expert fretwork prowess, we’re banking she can skip the apologies.

Raised in Calgary, Canada, Ell started out on piano at age 6, before switching over to guitar as an 8-year-old.