Blake Mills and Pino Palladino
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This go around, Cory Wong is joined by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills. Palladino, a Grammy-winning bassist, has collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu and Keith Richards to John Mayer and the late, great D’Angelo. Mills’ resumé includes work with Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, and Joni Mitchell. The duo has been around the block.
Wong probes all corners of their creative processes, from the purpose of the music they make, to dealing with “unnatural” elements of the creative process, to layering parts on a record, to different approaches to melody. As you read, Palladino and Mills have worked with some of the greatest musicians and writers of the past century. They’ve got a lot of wisdom to share.
Tune in to learn from some of the best in the biz.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happened and welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm your host, Corey Wong. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm stoked today because on the show we've got two guests. |
| 0:10.2 | That is right. |
| 0:11.0 | We have Blake Mills and Pino-Paladino. |
| 0:13.6 | If you are unfamiliar with either one of them, where have you been? |
| 0:18.1 | The last, I don't know how many years. |
| 0:20.9 | The first time I saw Blake Mills play was actually at the Amsterdam Bar and Grill in downtown St. Paul, the Hey Ho Tour. |
| 0:29.3 | I think around 2014, 15, somewhere in there. |
| 0:34.1 | Saw him play incredible singer-songwriter, just super compelling performance, and was just |
| 0:40.1 | blown away by his slide playing, just his textural playing, just the touch on the instrument. |
| 0:46.7 | As a guitar player, he's just incredible. And the first time I got to play with Blake was when we did |
| 0:50.9 | the Fearless Flyers inaugural album. He came in and sat in with us as a special guest for our version of Sign Sealed Delivered. |
| 0:59.5 | We met that day. He came in and said, hey, what's up? |
| 1:02.5 | Plugged in his guitar directly to an amp and played something that just like, |
| 1:07.0 | it felt like it came from the center of the Earth's core or something. |
| 1:10.7 | I don't know how to describe it. It was insane. Mark Letcheri and I looked at each other like, oh my God. It felt like it came from the center of the earth's core or something. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know how to describe it. It was insane. |
| 1:12.9 | Mark LaTierry and I looked at each other like, oh my gosh, this cat is deep, dude. |
| 1:17.5 | And yeah, he's an incredible player, amazing on the slide, amazing with this new fretless |
| 1:22.7 | guitar thing that he's got. |
| 1:24.7 | And also, just overall, very, very musical and artistic person, which is why |
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