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as solidly and or as flush as a Kahler. With a
Kahler, the tone sounds pretty darned good.
I really like that about the Kahler. Since you
have that big plate to rest against the body,
you get more natural wood resonance, it
doesn’t sound thin and small. The other
thing that I like is the adjustable string spacing. I don’t think other bridges can do that.
On the first CD, About Time, you cover
a whole spectrum of guitar playing.
You do a dedication to Danny Gatton,
you’re hitting a little Django, you’ve got
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from
Harold Arlen, and then you even do
Billy Joel’s “Root Beer Rag.” What can
we expect hear on the new CD?
When I spoke with Steve Vai, he was
saying the last CD was really good but I
needed a little bit better recording quality. He said the problem with the first CD,
as far as marketing, is that I don’t know
where to market it stylistically; it’s all over
the map. I came up with this concept in
my mind called “Country Jazzmaster,” with
Jazzmaster being one word, like the guitar.
I kept that thread in my mind as I was
recording this album, and all of the songs
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leaned into that concept. Everything that
you’re going to hear is country-jazz. Western
swing, country jazz – that sort of a thing.
There’s a thread of continuity running
through the whole album that you will hear.
I recorded everything from the old Jerry
Reed tune, “Guitar Man,” to “Back Home
Again in Indiana,” “That She Could Ever
Be,” “Panhandle Rag” and my ultimate version of “Ghost Riders in the Sky.”
I still remember this vivdly: a NAMM
show where you, Steve Vai and I were
standing around talking, and Steve
hailed you as, “One of the greatest Tele
players of all time.” Will we hear evidence of this on the new CD?
That was very nice of him. But, yeah, that’s
what I’m hoping for, and I think that it’s
really extremely well played, if I can say so
myself. We all worked really hard on it.
Steve Trovato
It’s About Time and the new,
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