Don’t Call Grace Bowers a Blues-Rock Guitarist
Wong Notes
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Grace Bowers just released her debut record, 2024’s Wine on Venus, with her band the Hodge Podge, but she’s already one the most well-known young guitarists in America. On this episode of Wong Notes, Bowers talks through the ups, downs, and detours of her whirlwind career.
Bowers started out livestreaming performances on Reddit at age 13, and came into the public eye as a performer on social media, so she’s well acquainted with the limits and benefits of being an “Instagram guitarist.” She and Cory talk about session work in Nashville (Bowers loathes it), her live performance rig, and Eddie Hazel’s influence.
Bowers plugs the importance of networking as a young musician: If you want gigs, you gotta go to gigs, and make acquaintances. But none of that elbow-rubbing will matter unless you’re solid on you’re instrument. “No one’s gonna hire you if you’re ass,” says Bowers. “Practice is important.”
Tune in to learn why Bowers is ready to move on from Wine on Venus, her takes on Nashville versus California, and why she hates “the blues-rock label.”
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. Today on the show, |
| 0:07.4 | we've got a very special guest, Grace Bowers. Incredible guitar player, young guitar player. I've seen |
| 0:14.3 | just from hanging around in the Nashville scene, hanging at festivals and whatnot. |
| 0:19.3 | Incredible musician, artist. |
| 0:21.9 | Very fun to see somebody so young with so much talent, |
| 0:26.0 | developing their artistry and eagerness to constantly get better, |
| 0:29.6 | both on the instrument and as a writer. |
| 0:32.6 | And you know what? I said both. |
| 0:33.7 | There's other things as well. |
| 0:35.0 | Just discovering their voice and what they have and what they |
| 0:38.6 | want to say in the world through their music, through their artistry. It is so fun to see |
| 0:43.5 | somebody like Grace doing that because she's so great. And we have a lot of mutual friends who we |
| 0:48.2 | play music together with as well. All of them say wonderful things about her. She is great. |
| 0:54.1 | It's so fun to have her on the podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | The interview was great. |
| 0:57.2 | And tell you what? |
| 0:58.4 | What am I doing right now? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm in Europe. |
| 1:00.8 | I'm in the middle of a tour right now. |
| 1:02.7 | Just got done doing a mainland Europe tour heading over to the UK. |
| 1:06.9 | The next few days we're playing Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, a couple nights in London. It's going to be fantastic if you're in any of those cities. Come see us this week. The band is slamming. Got the full band out with me. We're absolutely crushing right now. I'm not going to lie. I'm feeling good about it. Yeah, I can say when the band's crushing. I can say when the band's, yeah, you know what, right now we're trying to figure it out. But, you know, right now, the band is sounding amazing. 10-piece band out on the road. We got the band couch opening up for us this whole tour. They sound fantastic. It's been really fun. So, if you're in one of those cities, like I said, come hang out, say hi, check out one of the shows. |
| 1:45.2 | It's been very unique, very fun, a lot of special surprises. |
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