Grace with extra sugar. Thirty years in, Adlai’s the guitarist you call when harmony needs to lift the lyric. He studied with Tuck Andress and Bruce Forman, then made that knowledge feel easy—sharing stages from Portland’s Aladdin Theater to the Monterey Jazz Festival, backing legends like Randy Newman, Tuck & Patti, and Marisa Monte. In our room, he’s a Rose: one pass and the story sits up; two, and the song feels inevitable.