87 - Rick Holmstrom

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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RICK HOLMSTROM is one of the most tasteful blues/gospel/Americana guitarists I know. Whether he's playing lead for gospel/R&B legend (and Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Famer) Mavis Staples, or recording his own albums, Holmstrom somehow manages to keep his guitar parts powerful and groovy without ever getting in the way of the vocals. He's a pocket player with plenty of blues sting in his solos. It was a thrill to set up some mics at Holmstrom's house, trade licks with him, hear him demonstrate a wide range of cool blues grooves, and talk with him about how he moved from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Southern California, where he built an inspiring career playing guitar. This episode is presented by Guitar Player magazine and guitarplayer.com. Thanks for listening! -- JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe.

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0:00.0	Episode 87 of No Guitar is Safe features the amazingly tasteful and super funky guitar player
0:10.5	Rick Holmstrom and it's brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and GuitarPlayer.com.
0:15.6	Guitar player, play better, sound better.
0:19.9	No guitar is safe.
0:24.1	Hey everybody, thanks for listening.
0:25.9	No guitar is safe.
0:27.4	My name is Jude Gold.
0:28.7	I'm thrilled today because I have on the show a person I've always wanted to meet, let
0:33.8	alone interview, let alone jam with, as you're about to hear Rick Holmstrom
0:42.3	everything this guy plays is so tasty and so in the pocket
0:49.3	he does old school he does new school, whatever.
0:58.5	I mean, he just, he plays the juiciest, like, blues, R&B, Americana.
1:03.4	I lost my way, slipped off track, went for a ride and I never came back.
1:10.5	Gospel, whatever kind of genre label you want to put on him he does it so well he also does adventurous more modern twists on that kind of stuff
1:20.8	put your hands together one time ladies and gentlemen fast in your seat down the first track you were hearing was cruel sunrise.
1:32.0	This is a track that you've been listening to off of his album, Hydraulic groove in which they get pretty experimental.
1:40.4	I love it.
1:41.1	Put your hands together one time.
1:43.5	It's up a hole! These rolls. experimental love it. And he pulls out on this episode you're going to hear, I'll let him tell you about it,
1:53.0	but just the most wonderful guitar and amplifier, some really cool vintage goodies.
1:59.0	I'll just be playing a Fender Telecaster through a boss katana combo.
2:04.9	Lightweight fits in my trunk to love that amp.
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