LOS ANGELES — Spend more than a few minutes chatting with Vince Gill and you’re liable to come away convinced that even his epitaph will defer to someone else.
As gifted as the Oklahoma native is as a singer, songwriter and guitarist — the Grammys have heaped more awards on him than on any other male country artist — Gill, 58, remains as self-effacing and disarmingly humble as an eminent musician can be.
For instance, Gill was up for yet another Grammy this year for his role producing country singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe’s latest album, “The Blade.” (It lost to Chris Stapleton’s “Traveller.”)
When the subject came up during an interview last week before the Grammys, while Gill was in the Los Angeles area to join the luminaries honored in the concrete RockWalk just outside the doors of Guitar Center’s Hollywood store, he again shifted the focus away from himself, despite having a new album of his own.