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Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

#433: Jim Campilongo/Guitarist,Songwriter,Friend

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

Dean Delray

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🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Today on LET THERE BE TALK my guest is the great Jim Campilongo one of the greatest living guitar players there is.

Jim stops by and talks all things guitar today including how he started playing 46 years ago,His time in San Francisco,Playing with Norah Jones and Cake and also his life now in NYC.

Jim has 12 fantastic records out and I highly recommend you dig into his catalog.

Jims style spans from Western swing, rock, and atmospheric jazz.

This mans Playing is next level. Also check out all his YOUTUBE Videos and Subscribe to his channel.

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode. I'll have to be

0:04.2

talk today is Monday, August 6th, coming to you live from the East Coast, New York City.

0:10.2

How is everybody? How is your weekend? What are you up to? What's going on? It's

0:14.5

fucking cooking hot out here. The humidity is on fire right up there with the

0:20.4

do the right thing. Burn and hot. Spike Lee weather. Man, that's what feels like

0:27.8

New York this week. You ever see do the right thing? Spike Lee, one of my favorite

0:31.7

movies ever. Oh my God, the whole film's geared around how hot it is and you can

0:36.9

just feel the heat burning up here in New York. The planet's on fire. There's no

0:42.6

global warming. Yeah, fuck. Norcails on fire. New York's a furnace. Lightning

0:52.7

all the time. Oh man, it's crazy out there. But anyway, welcome to my Monday and

0:58.8

your Monday. Here we are with a great guest today. You like guitar. I know you like

1:03.3

guitar because you guys are always like get some more guitar players on since it's

1:09.2

all dudes. This is an all-dude network. Apparently never never hear from any

1:15.5

any women listeners. It's all dudes like dude. Dude, dude, you got to get on some

1:21.6

more dudes. Anyway, guitar players, man. There's so many out there that I think

1:29.4

that are incredible and fly under the wire but have mad street credit. And this

1:36.5

guest today, Mr. Jim Campalongo is one of those guys. Me growing up in the Bay

1:42.4

area and playing music in San Francisco for a long, long period of time. Of course,

1:49.6

I would rub shoulders. Rub shoulders. You know that old one. I rub shoulders. I

1:56.5

would play gigs with Jim Campalongo. He was one of the most incredible players. A

2:03.3

legend in San Francisco amongst all the kind of all country and singer songwriter and

2:11.3

guitar player world. People would be like, you see in this guy. He can play like

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