Everyone Loves Guitar

An active touring and session musician in Nashville, Chris has played with Bryan Beller, Jim Brickman, Lee Ann Womack, Lila McCann, Lorrie Morgan, Percy Sledge, Randy Houser, and has been Terri Clark's lead touring player for the last 10 years. A balanced, optimistic person, Chis talks about a scary heart condition he had to deal with, playing with Percy Sledge, a low point in his career when the...

Jeff talks about his book, which traces his adventures and his rags to riches to rags to redemption story as Sting's guitarist. He performed 181 concerts in 25 countries on 6 continents, for over 2 million fans. Along the way, Jeff's had a successful career as a session player in NYC, working with people like Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi, Chet Atkins, John Patitucci, Sammy Davis Jr...

Founding member of The Lemon Trees, Paul spent years playing jazz, until joining a world tour with Oasis in 1997. He's toured, or worked as producer, mixer or engineer with.... Black Crowes, Oasis, Tom Jones, The Kooks, John Illsleys Band (Dire Straits bassist), The Noisettes, Big Linda, Future Clouds and Radar, Chris Robinson and the New Earth Mud, U.N.K.L.E., Black Car, Moke, Minuteman, Chris Sq...

A leading online instructor, Chris was one of the youngest professors in the guitar department when he was teaching at Berklee. He is currently in the cB3 organ trio and the progressive math funk band Red Right Return. He regularly plays with Oz Noy, Dave Fiuczynski, members of Snarky Puppy, and has recorded with Dweezil Zappa, Tom Quayle, and James Santiago Great story about Chris getting the job...

Founder of the avant-hard band Smoking Headless Torsos and currently a Professor at Berklee, Dave has played with Stewart Copeland, Jack DeJohnette, Meshell N'degeocello, John Medeski, Hasidic New Wave, Bernie Worrell Dave grew up in Germany and talks about what it was like growing up there as a mixed race child, including having to deal with racism and curiosity over his family. Experiences playi...

Rowan took Craig Goldy's place in Dio when he was 17 year old, and went from being a complete unknown from a small town in the UK, to playing arenas & international fame, virtually overnight. How Rowan got the gig is literally a 1 in a million story, very worth hearing. Rowan shares stories about Ronnie James Dio's kindness, Carpe diem, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, why 90% of success is just turning up...

Born in Australia, Ben Butler is a New York City-based session guitarist, sideman and composer. He's toured the w George Michael, Sting, Chris Botti, Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole, and has anchored the lead guitar chair in several Broadway shows, currently in Mean Girls GREAT stories here, including taking lessons & getting loads of encouragement from Tommy Emmanuel, moving to NYC, how he got the gigs...

A pedal steel guitarist, Rich toured or played on records of kd lang, Sara Bareilles, Rosanne Cash, The Milk Carton Kids, Ben Kweller, Brett Dennen,St. Vincent, Vulfpeck, Anais Mitchell, Marc Cohn, Rhett Miller, Lucius, lots of others Great stories about moving from NYC to LA and the difficult process of breaking into the music scene there, dealing with a low point in your career when you even won...

Incredibly informative, heartwarming stories, and some harsh reality, all in one amazing conversation. Loads of cool stories including how Dixie Dregs got started, how Steve got the gigs with Kansas & Deep Purple, what he learned about audiences, what he learned from working with Kansas, his TOP 3 musical experiences…Steve's favorite guitars & amps, his favorite guitar players & favorite LPs… Why...

A successful guitarist, producer and artist, Dave has been performing on the Chicago blues scene for over 30 years and has played with Steve Freund, Jimmy Johnson, Sam Lay, Hubert Sumlin, Son Seals, Lurrie Bell, Kim Wilson, Boz Scaggs & loads of others Dave talks about dropping out of college to play guitar, getting hooked up with Hubert Sumlin, early challenges of being in the music business, imp...

Scott has been Tom Jones guitar player for the last 4 years and was a child prodigy blues player, growing up in England. He's also released 2 solo LPs and one with his band Rufus Black and has backed up Eric Clapton and Van Morrison Scott discusses the "trap" of having early opportunities and not having the right guidance as to how to leverage those opportunities… the dilemma of working in a niche...

Ted has been Shooter Jennings bass player since 2004 and has also toured the world, produced 15 albums, and released 8 solo albums of his own. He's also played with Wilson Phillips, Jessi Colter, Billy Ray Cyrus and loads of other artists How he got the gig with Shooter, a smart decision he made and some clever marketing he did to propel his career when his steady gig shut down for 2 years, a dari...

Shawn got his first deal with Capitol in 2001 where he had a top 10 hit with "Paralyzed" and his band Rock Kills Kid, he then played with Courtney Love for 9 years. Along the way Shawn shares some great stories about the trip up, and the subsequent rock star fall… how and why he quit playing and got into managing acts… getting sober 2 years ago… the ups and downs of growing up in a privileged envi...

A top session and recording artist in India, Warren's released 4 LPs under the blackstratblues name & has played on loads of top Bollywood movie soundtracks, and with Oscar winning movie composer AR Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) Interesting and in-depth conversation about how he got into doing session and soundtrack work, dropping out of school, leaving India to move to New Zealand - and then leavi...

Rale grew up in war-torn Serbia, emigrated to America to attend Berklee on a full scholarship, and since then has sold out Carnegie Hall, played the Village Vanguard and the most prominent jazz clubs and music festivals throughout the US and Europe, and had a CD launch party at the Blue Note in NYC. He has also released 5 solo albums and is the only Serbian jazz guitarist to ever come to the US. V...

Chris is a top session player in Atlanta who's played on 4 top 20 Billboard singles and hundreds of albums. He also plays in several bands in the Atlanta area and tours around the country with ABBA Mania out of London One of the warmest guys around & very easy to talk with, Chris grew up in a small town in Georgia, in a family of (mostly bluegrass) musicians. He talks about dealing with the loss o...

Eric is an amazingly talented acoustic artist who's just released his 7th LP, Ballads and Blues. He does a great job melding Jimmy Page, Grant Green, bluegrass, folk and a dash of classical. He also has a signature guitar with Santa Cruz - one of their best-selling models Eric talks about his eclectic childhood, simplifying his life and what prompted him to do this, balancing work and home, what h...

Bonnie Tyler's lead guitarist since 1998, he's also produced Bonnie, Eric Clapton and others, and specializes in writing scores, underscores and Sonic Branding for major outlets like BBC, Channel 4, Sony, Formula 1 and other large companies Matt shares some deep stuff here including some early career disappointments that sidelined his career for several years, some great advice he wishes he would...

James has toured all over the US and Europe, has played with Eric Johnson, and regularly sits in with Dweezil Zappa. And he is the under the radar "Secret Weapon" behind the design of LOADS of pedals and amplifiers. James grew up in a very small town in California, making tortillas in the family business, but he knew he wanted more out of life. His journey includes getting sober, gigging out 6 nig...

Tom talks about his new album, American Garden and how a good project that fell apart was the inspiration for him to make this record. Where he sees this record in the current scheme of what's going on here, culturally, and how some of the guest stars, like Jon Butcher and Kenny Aaronson, wound up working together Subscribe https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe/ Facebook: https://www.faceb...

Founding member of Alcatrazz & New England, Gary played with both Steve Vai & Yngwie Malmsteen in Alcatrazz. In this interview, he reveals the truth behind why Alcatrazz had so many hiccups and why the band ultimately kept breaking up… how multiple managers and the record company dropped the ball, a GREAT Woodstock story and LOADS of rock and roll ups and downs: Subscribe https://www.everyoneloves...

Adam has worked on loads of TV and movies, including Britain's Got Talent, Dr Who, Downton Abbey, Bridget Jones Baby, Paddington 2, Les Miserables, Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri & more. He's toured with Gloria Estefan, Seal, London Symphony & Royal Philharmonic Adam talks about the specific skill sets you need to work on soundtracks, a particular low point in his career, his vintage gui...

Tony worked with Joan Jett & Rihanna (both 5 years), Enrique Iglesias, K'naan, Delta Goodrem & others, as lead guitarist, music director and show programmer, responsible for all facets of live shows, working with the artist & AV staff. TV credits include The Grammys, MTV Music Awards, TRL, more. Tony has written and produced songs for top artists including Mandy Moore, Donna Summer, INXS, Colin Ha...

At 17, Bobby played with Sonny Rollins at Carnegie Hall. He then wound up touring with Sonny for 10 years, and playing on 5 of his records. Bobby's also played with Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Charles Earland, Miles Davis, Kenny Garrett , Dr. John, and trumpeters Tom Browne and Hugh Masakela, pianists Weldon Irvine and Dave Grusin, Charlie Parker pianists: Al Haig and Walter Bishop, Jr. Sto...

Canada's Anthony Gomes opens up about a lot of personal stuff, including: how coming from immigrant parents helped shape his outlook on life and his work ethic, using his music to make a difference, the ups (and downs) of being authentic with your music, believing in yourself, and how mental illness inspired Anthony to create a charity that does great things for those in need, through the healing...