Have Guitar Will Travel Podcast

265 - Mark Lettieri and Purbayan Chatterjee

In episode 265 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist Mark Lettieri and sitarist and Grammy winner Purbayan Chatterjee. In their conversation the two tell us where they are now, Mark in Fort Worth, TX and Purbayan in Bombay (Mumbai), India and they discuss how they met at Mark’s Snarky Puppy (one of his regular gigs) concert in Mumbai.
Purbayan discusses how this project “Feathered Creatures” turned from a solo album with a few guitar parts to a full out collaboration between the two and they take us through the instrumentation on the album apart from Mark’s guitar and Purbayan’s sitar work.
The two take us through the gear they used on the album, Purbayan’s sitar and his electric sitar and Mark’s PRS guitars and Purbayan explains the tuning of the sitar.
The two talk about upcoming shows both in the l US and India and tour plans for 2027 and they also tell us about their individual tour schedules for the rest of the year.
Mark describes how he ended up in Fort Worth and Purbayan tells us about his family lineage of sitar players.

To find out more about Mark you can go to his website: marklettieri.com and for more information about Purbayan you can go to his website: purbayan.com and they’re both active on the socials

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264 - Stacy Mitchhart

In episode 264 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with the Blues Doctor, Stacy Mitchhart. In their conversation Stacy talks about his home in Nashville where he’s lived for the past 30 years and the club where he’s had a residency for the same 30 years, Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar bourbonstreetbluesandboogiebar.com.
Stacy tells us about his his new album “No Rhyme Or Reason” which is out now.
Stacy takes us through his musical education and his hometown of Cincinnati and he explains the moniker “Blues Doctor” and he tells us about his dad’s record collection which heavily inspired his musical direction and he talks about a group a musical friends who have remained close throughout his career.
Stacy discusses his guitar collection and his relationship with Epiphone and his endorsements with Vintage Guitars (vintageguitarsus.com) and Ciari guitars (ciariguitars.com) and he tells us about how he deals with gear when he’s touring overseas and how he fills out his band internationally as well.
Stacy describes releasing his albums independently throughout his career and crowd funding before there was the internet and he also talks about being self managed.
Finally Stacy talks about his Cadillacs that he restores.

To find out more about Stacy you can go to his website: stacymitchhart.com

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263 - John Pita (City of the Sun)

In episode 263 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist John Pita from the band City of the Sun. In their conversation John talks about growing up in Ecuador and moving to the US when he was 14.
John gives us his musical history taking up guitar while living in on Long Island, NY. and eventually busking in Washington Square Park near the New School playing Latin style music in the vein of Al DiMeola and Paco De Lucia.
John takes us through the music that City of the Sun makes and their new album “Under the Moon” and their tour schedule and he talks about traveling internationally as a musician.
John describes his gear Seagull acoustics and Godin electrics for guitars and a Roland JC 40 for an amp and a Rolando Street Cube for busking and he takes us through his pedals.

To find out more about John and City of the Sun you can go to his website: wearecityofthesun.com

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262 - Jim Kimo West (Solo, Weird Al Yankovic)

In episode 262 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist Jim “Kimo” West who is a slack key guitarist and plays guitar with Weird Al Yankovic.
In our conversation Jim discusses his current tour schedule with George Kahumoku and with Weird Al later in the summer.
Jim takes us through his musical history growing up in Canada and moving to Florida at a young age playing in bands and eventually moving to LA and quickly becoming a member of Weird Al’s band.
Jim tells us how he came to embrace slack key guitar after a post tour trip to Maui and how playing and writing slack key songs for fun started a second career.
Jim talks about meeting Frank Zappa and Glen Frey while playing guitar in a cover band in Tampa.
Jim takes us through his gear early on Telecasters, Les Paul’s and Fender Bassmans and Marshalls and his gear now Tom Anderson Strat types and Fractal AX FX 3 and the FM 9 and Taylor guitars for his slack key gigs he also takes us through his pickup system for his Taylor’s and the banjo tuners he uses.
Jim discusses working with Rick Derringer who produced Weird Al’s early albums and eventually became a mentor to Jim.
Jim describes what it’s like to work and tour with Weird Al and the special gear he’s used for different gigs throughout the years.
Finally Jim tells us about his collaboration with Joss Jaffe and their latest album “Delphinus”.

To find out more about Jim you can go to his website: jimkimowest.com

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261 - UltraBomb (Greg Norton and Ryan Smith)

In episode 261 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with UltraBomb: Greg Norton (bass) from of Husker Du and Ryan Smith (guitar and vocals) who’s also currently in Soul Asylum. Their conversation starts with Ryan who’s in a hotel room in New Jersey that’s having air conditioning troubles, and the two give us a history of the band starting with Greg and two other members and how it eventually became the lineup that it is now with Ryan on vocals and guitar and Derek O’Brien from Social Distortion on drums.
Greg and Ryan tell us about the bands new album “the Bridges That We Burn” that came out April 3rd and how they went about writing it and talk about the production.
Greg gives us their upcoming tour dates in the Midwest and on the West Coast in June.
Greg discusses Husker Du and the lack of potential future work with that band and Ryan describes what Soul Asylum is currently up too.
The two take us through their gear with UltraBomb Reverend guitars and basses and Ryan tells us a little bit about his relationship with Gibson for Soul Asylum and he talks acoustic guitars.
Ryan talks about maintaining his voice on the road and Greg tells us about the team behind the scenes.

To find out more about UltraBomb you can go to their linktree: linktr.ee/ultrabomb

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