Marcus King and the Medicine of Music
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Marcus King has already been through the wringer, but he’s on the come-up. His hotly anticipated third LP, Mood Swings, drops this Friday, April 5, and on this episode of Wong Notes, the earnest, honest 28-year old South Carolinian goes deep on his career with Cory Wong.
The two shredders open by swapping notes on how touring has changed post-pandemic. Costs are way up, but they’re managing to make it work. King reveals to Wong that on his upcoming tour, he’s wrangled a few sizeable, must-have creature comforts into the trailers—tune in to find out what King brings on the road.
King walks us through his custom amp and cabinet setups, detailing why he prefers 10" speakers to 12", how he became friends with Orange Amplifiers founder Cliff Cooper, and the family history that led to his signature Gibson Marcus King 1962 ES-345, complete with sideways vibrola.
He and Wong get down to the nitty-gritty, too. Marcus talks about pressure to conform to certain genre communities, his struggles with self-medicating, and how sometimes, music feels like the only medicine we’ve got on hand.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. It's feeling good. April |
| 0:08.0 | 2024. Here we are. We're already here in April of 2024. Feels good. Feels good. I'm down in |
| 0:15.4 | Austin, Texas right now. Doing a little run of shows with Wolfpack. Hope to see some of you there. |
| 0:20.8 | I would spend this time right now trying to promote it, but guess what? The shows are all sold out. So if you got a ticket, come say hi. If not, well, get a ticket to some other show because we actually just announced in September. We're playing the Bay Area and in L.A. We're recording a live, well, not a live album. We are recording our next |
| 0:39.3 | album live on stage at these shows. Similar thing we just did with the Fearless Flyers at Blue |
| 0:45.0 | Note in New York City. If you haven't listened to that, go check it out. Very fun. Very fun way |
| 0:51.5 | to make a record. A little different level of level of pressure you know you got to be on |
| 0:55.2 | and you just you get one take you know or in this case we're going to get like eight takes because |
| 0:59.8 | we're doing eight shows whatever it's going to be great we're also playing in europe this summer |
| 1:03.8 | come say hi hey it's a guitar podcast here so i got to come at you with a challenge okay here's |
| 1:10.2 | my challenge for those of you guitar players. |
| 1:12.4 | Can you play any note on any string on the neck? If I said, play a C on the third string, boom, |
| 1:19.4 | can you do it? Play a B flat on the third string. Can you do it? I want to challenge you right now, |
| 1:25.0 | learn to play every note everywhere on the neck. Go around and play every C you can, every F, every D flat, |
| 1:32.3 | boom, go through all the notes. |
| 1:34.3 | Make sure you got them. |
| 1:36.3 | Because note location is important. |
| 1:38.3 | It gives you anchors for your scales and your chords. |
| 1:42.3 | Now if this sort of thing interests you, if this thing confuses you a little bit, I've got a course, the Corey Wong guitar course. It goes through all this stuff, okay? You need this course. No, it's not just a rhythm guitar course. It's a fundamentals course. It's beginner to advanced. There's all sorts of things. There's over six hours of lessons on there. |
| 2:02.2 | It's dope. And today on the podcast, we've got guitar slinger, singer, songwriter Marcus King. |
| 2:09.0 | Marcus has a brand new album out. It's great. Produced by Rick Rubin. Great songs, great guitar playing, great tones. |
| 2:16.7 | It's dope. So check it out. Marcus is really great. playing, great tones. It's dope. |
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