So yeah, before I even get today's show fully rolling, I kind of want to hit play right awaycord jams, deceptively simple.

A lot of people think, oh man, one chord, I could play all night on one chord.

It's funny though, if you ever find yourself

in that situation where someone's expecting a 10-minute solo from you, you'll find out real fast

how many ideas you have. Minute two comes around, minute three, minute four. Wow, but Alan just

takes it to the moon and back on this stuff

this song is called Just Get In.

It's the title track from the album of the same name by Wonderland Park.

Wonderland Park is kind of a project built around Alan's amazing improvisational abilities.

Alan, of course, can play the heck out of some changes.

As you would expect from a guy who's played with really deep bandleaders such as Roberta Flack and Bobby Caldwell,

Gino Vanelli, Randy Crawford, The Crusaders.

Played plays a ton of slide too he's got other tricks up his sleeve as you're going to hear but whatever he does it's always soulful and lyrical and aggressive and powerful I

always love it I think Alan is deserving of the very best adjective

pretty much that you can give a guitar player. Tasty. Man, he's right up there at the top of the

list, in my book at least, with, you know, those super tasty players such as Robin Ford and Larry

Carlton. Alan's got it, man.

He's got the touch.

The music. My name is Jude Gold. Thanks for listening to No Guitar is Safe, the guitar show in which I plug in and have a guitar hang with a guitar hero. That's right.

We jam, we talk tone, we talk gear, we trade licks,

but most of all we figure out how a great player, such as Alan Hines,

went from one day thinking, man, I want to pick up a guitar for the first time

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