Les Paul wins two grammies!

At 90 years old Les Paul still has a weekly gig At the Iridium Jazz Club in New York.
He has just won two Grammy Awards for his ninetieth birthday tribute album, Les Paul and Friends:American Made, World Played.
Les, who was forced to miss Tuesday night's 90th birthday tribute show at Gibson Amphitheatre because of a bout with pneumonia, received two awards: best pop instrumental performance, for the track "Caravan," and best rock instrumental performance, for "69 Freedom Special.
The friends include Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve Miller, Keith Richards,and Buddy Guy.
This album is his first release since 1978's Chester & Lester with the late Chet Atkins. That album marked the only other time he won a Grammy.

As well as lending his name and a large amount of genius to the Les Paul guitars, Les is the father of multi-track recording and overdubbing, using a recording machine that he built from a Cadillac flywheel which had been dynamically balanced to act as a turntable, a jukebox motor and a linking belt provided by a dental house. He also broke the taboo about standing two feet from the microphone, by introducing close mic technique, which is still utilized. He also brought in delay echo, by putting a playback pickup behind the recording head of a wire recorder.

In 1947 Les had a car accident.
The doctors wanted to amputate his right arm, but Les convinced them to pin the arm with it bent to picking position. He went on to to a hugely successful string of hit recordings between 1948 to 1955 with his wife Mary Ford.