Tom Bukovac is an American session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

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Bukovac began playing guitar at age ten, and started playing his first shows at age thirteen. He grew up in Willowick, Ohio and moved to Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 in 1992, where he found work playing for Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

, Lionel Cartwright

Lionel Cartwright

Lionel Cartwright is an American country music artist. Between 1988 and 1992, Cartwright charted twelve singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, including a Number One single in 1991's "Leap of Faith"...

 and others. He also toured with Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Ellen Judd is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna. Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds...

, but by 1999, Bukovac decided to stop touring and play as a session musician. He won the Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year Award five years consecutively, and has earned a series of nominations from the Country Music Association

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...

 and the Academy of Country Music

Academy of Country Music

The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...

(he won ACM Guitarist of the Year for 2008 and 2010).

Awards http://www.in2allmusic.net/2009acmwinners.htm

Academy of Country Music 2008 Guitarist of the Year

Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year 2009

Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year 2008

Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year 2007

Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year 2006

Music Row Magazine Session Guitarist of the Year 2005

External Links, References

[ AllMusic.com Recording Credits page]

Academy of Country Music 2009 Nominees and Winners Announcements

Music Row Magazine Top Ten All Stars announcement

Official Website