28 - Charlie Hunter

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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7-string jazz/funk guitar wünderkind Charlie Hunter has forged an exciting style all his own—one in which he plays bass lines and guitar parts simultaneously. On this episode of No Guitar Is Safe, Charlie plugs in with host Jude Gold and reveals exactly how he developed his singular guitar style and crafted an exciting career.

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:09.3	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:10.9	Welcome, it's Jude Gold here with No Guitar is Safe.
0:13.7	Episode 28, today's guest, the great Charlie Hunter.
0:27.7	Yeah. Charlie Hunter. I hope you're digging what you're here.
0:29.4	This is an exclusive here.
0:31.4	We are here in sneak previews of his new album coming out July 22nd.
0:37.0	The name of the album is based on a...
0:39.4	It literally is a Mike Tyson quote
0:42.1	called Everybody Has a Plan
0:44.3	until they get punched in the mouth.
0:53.0	Again, it comes out on July 22nd, and of course, man, there's always such great musicians
0:57.6	that surround Charlie at all times, because he's such a great jazz player, groove player,
1:03.3	funk player, and blues player.
1:04.7	This album is kind of focusing a little more on his blues and funk influences.
1:15.0	Music sing a little more on his blues and funk influences. Yeah, no overdubs on this record.
1:17.1	This was recorded entirely live in a studio in Hudson, New York.
1:21.2	Charlie was one of those guys that impressed me mightily back in the day when we were all
1:26.0	very young and he's like, I'm moving to New York
1:28.6	and he never came back.
1:43.5	Yeah, I had the pleasure of taking lessons from Charlie right after high school.
1:52.0	He was just a couple of years ahead of me in high school, but he was teaching at Subway guitars in Berkeley. And I was like, man, I got to take advantage of this opportunity.
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