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No Guitar Is Safe

84 - Adam Hawley

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

ADAM HAWLEY, the funky young guitarist who has already topped Billboard's Smooth Jazz chart five times, plugs in his favorite Paul Reed Smith, jams with me, and reflects on his evolution as a musician. He also talks about what it was like earning a doctorate in music and becoming a sideman to Jennifer Lopez, Joss Stone, the Manhattan Transfer, and countless other headlining vocal acts — including his wife, Kat Hawley. I also poke a little fun at Adam by getting him to explain the epic case of "champagne problems" he related to me when we were chatting in the hall one day at Musicians Institute. This episode is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and guitarplayer.com. Thanks for listening. Enjoy! -- JUDE GOLD, host and creator of No Guitar Is Safe

Transcript

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0:00.0

No guitar is safe.

0:07.0

Hi, this is Jude Gold. Welcome to episode 84 of No Guitar is Safe, the show where guitar heroes plug in.

0:19.0

Today's episode with the super funky Adam Hawley, who you're listening to right now, is brought to you by

0:27.5

Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com. Guitar player, play better, sound better.

0:40.5

Yeah, how funky is Adam? He's so funky that he has enjoyed five number one hits on the Billboard Smooth Jazz

0:45.5

chart.

0:46.9

Impressive.

0:47.9

It's also impressive the number of headlining singers he's worked with.

0:51.3

It's crazy.

0:52.3

Everyone from Natalie Cole, Joss Stone, Brian McKnight,

0:55.5

Jennifer Lopez, Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey. The list goes on and on to the break of dawn.

1:02.6

No kidding. I run into Adam regularly, I say regularly, but it's been twice now at the Houston Airport,

1:14.6

which is a big hub, because you know he's always out there working. And this last time he was

1:19.3

with a very special singer, his wife, Cat Holly. Kat's voice will also make an appearance later in the show.

1:30.3

Without further ado, let's go across town to Musicians Institute, one of the rooms on the second

1:36.3

floor, which is just a bustling hive of guitar playing.

1:39.3

You might hear a little bit of background stuff happening from other players, where we're

1:43.3

going to hang out with Adam

1:44.2

and jam with him. Enjoy it.

2:05.0

What's up everybody? We are at

2:06.1

Am I, Musicians Institute?

2:10.6

And I am jamming with

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