Have Guitar Will Travel Podcast

269 - BottleRock 2026: Hannah Cohen and the Girl Tones

In episode 269 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine host James Patrick Regan is at BottleRock 2026 and he speaks with Hannah Cohen and the Girl Tones. First up is Hannah Cohen, she tells us this is her second BottleRock experience her first singing background for Iron and Wine. Hannah discusses her father a respected jazz drummer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She talks about her current home in the Catskills of New York.
Hannah describes her gear: a nylon string guitar and she takes us through her band and her tour schedule: festivals and supporting Alabama Shakes.

To find out more about Hannah you can go to her website: thehannahcohen.com

In my conversation with the Girl Tones, Kenzie on guitar and Laila on drums we discuss living Bowling Green Kentucky and they take us through playing as a duo and what Kenzie does as far as gear to fill in the low end. Kenzie takes through the rest of her gear and what she uses for backline.
The two tell us about the bands they’ve supported, an impressive list
And their tour schedule for the future.

To find out more about the Girl Tones you can go to their website: girltones.com

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268 - William Reaves (Breakfield)

In episode 268 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with William Reaves acoustic guitarist with the band “Breakfield”. In our conversation William talks about the band Breakfield and how that differs from the previous lineup which was called “Boy Named Banjo” and Willam talks about their new self titled album that was produced by Sadler Vaden.
William discusses growing up in Nashville busking on lower Broadway and he tells us about the competitiveness of busking in Nashville.
William takes us through his musical education starting on harmonica then moving to guitar.
William describes working on music row as a songwriter and what is his songwriting strategy.
Finally William takes us through his gear, his tour schedule and he tells us about his day job as a construction project manager.

To find out more about William, you can go to his website: breakfieldband.com

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267 - Christo Ruppenthal (Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association)

In episode 267 “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist Christo Ruppenthal from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. In their conversation Christo tells us about his National Guitar Collection and his involvement with the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association (HSGA) and his love of vintage music.
Christo talks about the events HSGA holds including this year’s event which will be in Santa Cruz, CA on October 22nd through the 25th and he describes the membership which is world wide.
Christo takes us through what’s available on their website, lessons, tutorials and eventually instruments for sale.
Christo talks about his work performing Hawaiian songs from the 20’s and 30’s and he gives us a history lesson of the early players and their instruments he also takes us through his career as a luthier.
Christo gives us his thoughts on the resurgence of the popularity of Hawaiian Steel Guitar, which had help from Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Christo takes us through the common tunings for Hawaiian Steel and his preferred tuning A11.
Finally Christo tells us about his new album “Get Under the Moon”

To find out more about Christo you can go to his website: musicbychristo.com and for information on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association you can go to their website: hsga.org

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266 - Ryan Bingham

In episode 266 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham. In their conversation Ryan takes us through his musical history after his mother bought him a guitar at 16 and a friend of his father’s taught him malagueña from there he began improvising songs in the back of the truck when competing as a bull rider.
Ryan takes us through playing bars in Texas and New Mexico and his rise in popularity playing rodeo events.
Ryan discusses moving to Paris to perform in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show riding horses for two years and moving back and putting a band together and focusing on music playing anywhere they could.
Ryan describes how a chance meeting with Marc Ford (from the Black Crowes) led to a recording deal and started his career.
Ryan tells us about his current band, “the Texas Gentleman” and his current album “They Call Us the Lucky Ones”.
Ryan talks about his touring schedule playing rodeo events and touring during the spring and fall when his kids are in school.
Ryan takes us through his guitars most on loan from a friend including vintage acoustics and electrics from Gibson and Martin and his Waterloo acoustics through a Fender Princeton.
Ryan discusses sharing the stage with a lot of his heroes and his friendship with Keith Gattis and his brother Mark.
Finally Ryan tells us about how he got his music placed in tv shows and movies and how that led to his acting career.

To find out more about Ryan you can go to his website: ryanbingham.com

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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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