Ned Evett (born May 9, 1967) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for inventing and playing the fretless glass-necked guitar. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Edward Duncan Evett was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. A son of a university English professor and an opera singer mother, Evett excelled at music; first playing the ukulele at the age of 11, progressing to the classical guitar and giving his first professional performance at the age of sixteen. He then won a classical guitar scholarship, but dropped out before graduating to play in rock bands around the US.^[1]

Evett began playing fretless guitar in 1990 on a modified stratocaster that he built from various parts, including a basswood body from Luthier John Bolin. He first appeared in print in Fingerstyle magazine's 'Bizarre Guitars' profile, who stated "Ned Evett will make you reconsider the plucked-string instrument".^[2]

Evett developed the use of glass fingerboards for fretless guitar in 1996.^[3] In 1996, Evett played the fretless glass-necked guitar with Warner Brothers Recording artists Built to Spill, on their album, The Normal Years.^[4]

In 2003, Evett won the North American Rock Guitar Competition and, in 2004, PBS Television broadcast a documentary about the competition titled Driven To Play.^[5] The competition launched a series of high-profile opening concert performances for Evett with notable musicians, including Joe Satriani, the Allman Brothers, John Fogerty, George Thorogood, Eric Johnson, Kansas, and Leon Russell.^[6]

In December 2003, USA Today described Evett as "The perfectly sane and vastly entertaining master of the fretless glass-neck guitar".^[7]

In 2007, Guitar Player described Evett as "The world's first fretless guitar rockstar".^[8]

In 2012, Evett released Treehouse, his sixth solo record, produced in Nashville, Tennessee by musician Adrian Belew.^[9]

An animated filmmaker, Evett and Joe Satriani co-created the original animated series Crystal Planet, currently in development. It was published as a four part graphic novel by Incendium Comics in 2021^[10]

• Built to Spill : The Normal Years (1993)
• An Introduction to Fretless Guitar (2001)
• Fretless Guitar Masters (2001)
• Circus Liquor (2003)
• Evett/Vigroux (2004)
• iStole (2004)
• Village of the Unfretted (2005)
• Middle of the Middle (2007)
• Afraid For You (2010)
• Treehouse (2011)
• Glass Guitar (2015)
• All American Radio (2020)

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• Driven to Play PBS (2004)

• North American Rock Guitar Competition