165 Jamming with Wayne Henderson: Fantastic Picker, Luthier, and Humanitarian

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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WAYNE C. HENDERSON is a stunning steel-string player, and he's equally known for the amazing guitars he builds. Highly sought after instruments, Wayne's handmade guitars (and mandolins) have been ordered by everyone from Vince Gill and Eric Clapton to Brad Paisley, Peter Rowan and Doc Watson. To make a Henderson, Wayne says he just gets out his pocketknife and carves away "anything that doesn't look like a guitar." Last but not least, Wayne is known for the spectacular one-day music gathering he and his friends hold on a mountain in Virginia each year — the Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition, which raises scholarship money to help children learn to play instruments and love music. I attended the festival this year and had such a great time, two days later I brought some mics and stands over to Wayne's shop and convinced him to play some solo pieces, jam with me and do an interview, and you are about to hear it all here. This episode is presented by GUITAR PLAYER magazine and GUITARPLAYER.COM. Thanks for listening! ——Jude Gold, Host and creator, No Guitar Is Safe.

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0:00.0	We're about to have an incredible guitar hang and guitar pick in session with the great
0:04.0	Wayne Henderson. It's brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlay.com.
0:08.3	You've got to check out GuitarPlayer.com more often. All y'all. So much good stuff on there.
0:13.3	Great information. And of course, subscribe to the magazine if you can. It's been going since
0:17.8	1967. Guitar Player, play better, sound better.
0:22.6	No, guitar is safe.
0:34.5	What's up, everybody? How are you? I'm Jude Gold. I got to tell you about a perfect weekend that I had. It was Father's Day weekend. Just what is that? 10 days ago. I feel like it was yesterday because I'm still buzzing from it. It was up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I think it was the Blue Ridge Mountains. Don't kill me if I'm wrong in my geography. But it was right on the Virginia, North Carolina border,
0:54.8	up in the Highlands there at Grace and Highlands State Park. There's a field, there's a band shell,
1:01.5	and there's a festival that happens every year and has been going on for almost 30 years.
1:05.6	The Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition. We are about to play some beautiful guitars with Wayne.
1:13.2	He's an incredible player.
1:14.5	You're listening to him right now.
1:25.9	This is his album Made and Played. And it's probably called Made and Played, because it's probably played on a guitar he made.
1:32.5	He's one of the most amazing guitar luthiers in the country, builds him by hand, and don't take it from me.
1:38.8	Take it from Brad Paisley, Eric Clapton, Doc Watson, if he was still around, so many other incredible players.
1:46.0	Peter Rowan, the list is endless that have his amazing instruments and also some of his other instruments,
1:54.0	which are the mandolins that he makes, which are equally astonishing.
1:57.0	His daughter Jane is now making instruments under her name too. I think it's E.J.
2:01.8	Henderson guitars. But he's been doing this for quite a while and he has some amazing
2:06.2	Martins too. So we get to play with Wayne and learn about him and his life and his playing,
2:14.2	his metal fingerpicks that he uses and of course how he builds these unbelievable instruments
2:20.4	and how he keeps this festival going with the help of so many friends i'm telling you if friends are a
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