Vince Gill: “Authenticity Is Really Important to Me”
Wong Notes
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4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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He was the temporary steward of one of Hendrix's Strats, nearly joined Dire Straits, and now plays alongside Joe Walsh in Eagles. Why is Vince still the coolest cat in Nashville?
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes. I'm Corey Wong. Today's a good day. Today's a really good day. In my top five guitar players of all time, standing out in a unique way amongst them all is Vince Gill. Vince is an insane. |
| 0:22.6 | Insane guitar player. |
| 0:24.6 | Now, people know him as a triple threat, |
| 0:26.3 | singer, songwriter, guitar player. |
| 0:28.6 | I see him as a triple threat within the guitar sphere |
| 0:32.1 | because if he was just a strat guy, he could be that. |
| 0:36.0 | If he was just telly guy, he could be that. If he was just a Strat guy, he could be that. If he was just telly guy, he could be that. |
| 0:39.2 | If he was just acoustic strummer guy, he could be the king of any of those three things. |
| 0:44.8 | But he's all of them. |
| 0:46.1 | And you know what? |
| 0:46.8 | It seems like he doesn't even really care. |
| 0:49.8 | Why? |
| 0:50.2 | Because he just cares about music and the thing that's happening. |
| 0:53.7 | And he cares so much about |
| 0:54.7 | the song. |
| 0:55.7 | Vince's musicianship and maturity has grown through decades of putting out albums. |
| 1:00.9 | He's got over 21 Grammys, 18 CMA Awards, he's had over 40 singles on the Billboard |
| 1:07.1 | charts. |
| 1:08.1 | That is ridiculous. |
| 1:09.6 | That's why today's a good day. It's because I interviewed |
| 1:11.8 | Vince Gill. Wow. It's pretty fun. I got a lot of stuff going on. I'm having a good week |
| 1:18.4 | trying to practice some downstroke funk. Just doing a bunch of funk patterns, but downstrokes only |
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