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The country artist and session weapon packed a range of acoustics for some recent studio time.

Charlie Worsham was just wrapping up some tracking down at Sony Studios in Nashville when PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with him for a look at what tools he packs for a recording gig. Worsham had with him some of his most treasured acoustics, electrics, mandolins, banjos, and more, plus a collection of primo picks for all applications. Check out the highlights below.

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0:00 - Joe Glaser & D'Addario

0:15 - Charlie Worsham Playing Intro

1:09 - John Bohlinger Intro

1:33 - 1963 Martin D-28

6:30 - Pedalboard

12:54 - 1954 Gibson J-50

13:43 - Guitar Picks

18:11 - Live Rig vs Studio Gear

20:18 - Recording Eric Church's "Like Jesus Does"

24:53 - Recording Dierks Bentley's "High Note"

26:04 - Recording Dierks Bentley's "Drunk on a Plane"

28:32 - Rig Rundown & D'Addario

29:04 - Parker Mandolin

31:25 - Burkett Terz

33:23 - Ome 5-String Banjo

35:34 - 1960s Gibson EM-150 Mandolin

41:17 - 1970s Fender Stratocaster & Recording Eric Church's "Keep On"

45:33 - 1960 Gibson ES-335 Gifted from Vince Gill

52:38 - Fender '68 Custom Princeton Reverb & Nashville Amp Works 5E3

54:09 - Nashville Session Guitarist

55:04 - Importance of Rig Rundowns

56:17 - D'Addario

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Guitarist Dave Harrington concedes that while there are a few mile markers in the music that he and musician Nicolas Jaar create as Darkside, improvisation has been the rule from day one. The experimental electronic trio’s latest record, Nothing, which released in February on Matador, was the first to feature new percussionist Tlacael Esparza.

Taking the record on tour this year, Darkside stopped in at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, where Harrington broke down his complex signal chains for PG’s Chris Kies.

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0:00 - D'Addario XPND Pedalboard

0:15 - Dave Harrington Playing Intro

2:23 - Chris Kies Intro

2:47 - 2000s Gibson SG

5:07 - Started Playing Bass & How That Impacts His Guitar Playing

6:44 - Strings & Tunings

7:23 - Fender Twin Reverbs & Fender Hot Rod DeVille Amps

9:04 - Evolution of Gear Choices & Abundance

10:41 - New Pedals for Nothing Album

13:03 - Evolution of Darkside's Creativity

14:20 - Gibson SG Mod with Expression Pedal for DL4

17:37 - Making a Loop & Manipulating Sound

21:15 - XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit

21:31 - Structured Set vs Organic Improv

24:07 - EHX 45000 & Pitch Fork and ZVEX Mastotron

25:42 - Friendship with Nels Cline

27:37 - EHX 45000 & Hologram Electronics Microcosm

30:54 - Boss RT-20 Rotary Ensemble

32:29 - In-Ear Monitors vs Wedges

33:45 - Walrus Monument Tremolo

34:50 - Eventide PitchFactor

36:13 - Mu-Tron Micro-Tron IV

37:22 - Chase Bliss Habit

39:23 - Auditioning New Pedals

41:08 - Amped Innovations JJJ Special “Harmonics Extender” Preamp Pedal

42:31 - Chase Bliss Brothers

43:03 - JHS Notaklon

43:47 - HexeFX reVOLVERs

46:36 - Does Dave Harrington Play Acoustic Guitar?

46:52 - Approaching Pedals Like an Instrument

49:05 - D'Addario Strings

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The Austin-based guitarist sticks with a tried-and-true combo of American guitars and British amps.

If you’ve been on the path of this spring’s Rhett Schull/Zach Person tour, you’ve been treated to one of the coolest rock ’n’ roll double bills criss-crossing North America this year. Person, who is based in Austin, put out his second full-length record, Let’s Get Loud, in March 2024, and it was packed with alt-, blues-, and psychedelic-rock anthems built around his take-no-prisoners playing.

This year, Person is road-doggin’ it around the United States as a two-piece unit with just a drummer, and PG’s Chris Kies caught up with him before he and Shull played the Eastside Bowl in Madison, Tennessee, to see what goods Person is bringing for this spring’s shows.

0:00 - D’Addario

0:15 - Zach Person Playing Intro

0:54 - Chris Kies Intro

2:41 - Custom Shop ’63 Reissue SG Les Paul Custom

8:54 - ’67 Gibson SG Special

15:17 - “Jeanie” ’57 Gibson LG-1

21:02 - D’Addario

21:52 - Marshall JTM45

24:04 - Pedal Board

24:06 - JHS Packrat

24:40 - Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

27:35 - Strymon El Capistan

28:10 - Boss TU-3 Tuner

28:45 - Boss BF-2 Flanger

29:41 - Digitech Drop

30:56 - Earthquaker Devices Hoof Reaper

31:51 - Interstellar Audio Machines Marsling Octafuzzdrive

32:14 - Vox Wah

32:47 - TC Helicon Mic Mechanic

34:03 - AmpRX Brown Box

39:09 - “If 6 Was 9” Hendrix Cover

42:01 - D’Addario

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The legendary Louisville rockers brought tons of vintage tone tools on the road this year.

My Morning Jacket’s Is, their 10th album, released on March 21, and as we reported in our feature on the band in our May print issue, it showcased a band exercising their classic strengths as well as newfound vision and curiosity. Helmed by superstar producer Brendan O’Brien, Is finds MMJ at their anthemic, psychedelic best.

We caught up with Carl Broemel for a Rig Rundown back in 2015, but on this year’s tour, PG’s John Bohlinger checked in with all three axemen—Jim James, Broemel, and bassist Tom Blankenship—to hear about their road rigs. In Broemel’s estimation, they’re lazy—they just like to bring everything.

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0:00 - Joe Glaser & D’Addario

0:15 - Jim James Playing Intro

1:26 - John Bohlinger Intro

1:45 - Jim James’ Gibson Custom Jimi Hendrix 1967 SG Custom

3:58 - Jim James’ 1998 Gibson Flying V

7:03 - Jim James’ “Jimmy” Baxendale-Converted Harmony/Kay

9:00 - Jim James’ Epiphone Signature ES-335

11:39 - Jim James’ Fender Custom Shop Telecaster

14:54 - Jim James’ Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster

16:05 - Jim James’ 1960s Gretsch Country Gentleman

17:40 - Jim James’ DADFAD & DADF#AD Tunings

21:39 - Jim James’ 1960s Gibson Barney Kessel

24:03 - Jim James’ Amps

26:52 - Jim James’ Pedalboard

34:03 - Rig Rundown & D’Addario

35:05 - Carl Broemel’s Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded36:38 - Carl Broemel’s 1988 Gibson Les Paul Standard

38:40 - Carl Broemel’s Creston Custom Offset

41:03 - Carl Broemel’s Duesenberg Starplayer TV

42:57 - Carl Broemel on Playing Pedal-Steel Guitar

46:02 - Carl Broemel’s GFI Ultra Pedal-Steel Guitar

50:38 - Carl Broemel’s Fender Custom Shop Telecaster Custom

51:59 - Carl Broemel’s Amps & Emperor Cabs

54:04 - Carl Broemel’s Pedalboard

1:05:29 - Tom Blankenship on Being Center Stage

1:06:16 - Tom Blankenship’s Creston Custom P & Salvaged Pine Basses

1:10:07 - Tom Blankenship’s Mesa/Boogie Amps & Emperor Cabs

1:11:29 - Tom Blankenship’s Pedalboard

1:17:04 - D’Addario

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Rhett Shull’s a busy guy. Between being one of the most prolific YouTubers in the guitar sphere, working as a trusted hired gun, and creating his own original music, including last year’s EP The Early Days, he’s an avid cyclist. Just a week before we met up with Rhett at Eastside Bowl in Madison, Tennessee, for this Rig Rundown, he was slated to ride a 100-mile race in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Those plans were dashed when 70-mile-an-hour winds stoked a wildfire near town and burned just over 26,000 acres. But the show must go on: The next night, Shull played a gig in town, a special release for people reeling from a brutal natural disaster.

Shull’s a certified gear aficionado and tone wizard, so PG’s Chris Kies headed to Eastside Bowl to have him walk us through his current live rig. Check out the Rundown here, and stay tuned; Shull’s got more music coming later this year.

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0:00 - D'Addario XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit

0:15 - Rhett Shull Playing Intro

0:57 - Chris Kies Intro

1:27 - Rhett Shull's Channel & Content

2:05 - 2017 Novo Serus J

5:18 - Stillwater Fires & Mid-South Festival

7:19 - Rhett's Passion for Cycling

9:10 - 2017 Novo Serus J Sound Demo

10:30 - Fender Jack White Triplecaster

14:25 - 2020 Gibson Custom Shop Firebird V

19:06 - Two-Amp Setup

19:46 - Two-Rock Classic Reverb

22:21 - D'Addario & Rig Rundown

22:52 - David Edwards Designs Apollo

26:41 - Rhett Shull's Pedalboard

37:04 - Plans for Rhett's Music & YouTube Channel

38:40 - "For Penny" Live at Eastside Bowl March 20, 2025

41:50 - D'Addario XPND Pedalboard

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A pair of Fender amps and a custom-built Baranik helped the Boston band’s guitarist come back from a broken arm.

When Brandon Hagen broke his arm a few years ago, his life changed in an instant. He’d been fronting Boston indie rock outfit Vundabar since 2013, and suddenly, he was unable to do the things he’d built his life around. Recovery came, in part, in the form of a custom guitar prototype built by Mike Baranik of Baranik Guitars. Hagen deconstructed and rehabilitated his relationship to the 6-string on that instrument, an experience that led to Vundabar’s sixth LP, Surgery and Pleasure, released on March 7.

On tour supporting the record, the band appeared at Grimey’s in Nashville for a performance on March 11, and PG’s Chris Kies caught up with Hagen to hear about his journey and learn what tools the guitarist has brought on the road. As Hagen tells it, his setup is less about expertise and received wisdom, and more about “intuitive baby mode”—going with what feels and sounds good in the moment.

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0:00 - D'Addario XPND Pedalboard

0:15 - Vundabar "I Need You" Live at Grimey's

1:06 - Chris Kies Intro

1:39 - Brandon Hagen's Custom Baranik B4

4:56 - Fralin P-90s & Baranik Goldfoil Pickups

7:51 - Baranik B4 Controls

9:15 - Klon Clone in the Guitar?!

13:02 - Brandon Hagen's 2009 Japanese Fender Jazzmaster ’62 Reissue

15:54 - Recording "I Need You" & Surgery and Pleasure Album

22:47 - Relearning Guitar After a Broken Arm

24:25 - 2009 Japanese Fender Jazzmaster ’62 Reissue Sound Demo

26:02 - D'Addario XPND Pedalboard & John Bohlinger

26:51 - Brandon Hagen's Fender Fender Pro Junior & Blues Junior

31:37 - Brandon Hagen's Pedalboard

42:48 - Creating Tones for "Greenland"

44:39 - Brandon Hagen's Strings & Tunings

49:35 - Vundabar Live at Grimey's

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Teamwork makes the dream work for the Charleston, South Carolina, twosome, who trade off multi-instrumental duties throughout their sets.

Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst have been making music as Shovels & Rope since 2008. The husband-and-wife duo from South Carolina specialize in rootsy, bluesy rock, Americana, and alt-country, but they don’t confine themselves to traditional two-piece arrangements. They switch off on vocal, guitar, percussion, and synth duty throughout their shows, orchestrating a full-band ruckus with all available limbs.

Their seventh full-length, Something Is Working Up Above My Head, released in September last year, and while touring in support of it, they stopped at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl in late February. PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with Trent before the gig to see what tools he and Hearst use to maintain their musical juggling act.

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0:00 - Molly Tuttle & D'Addario

0:15 - Shovels & Rope Playing Intro

0:43 - John Bohlinger Intro

0:54 - Gretsch G6636T Players Edition Falcon Double-Cut Bigsby

2:21 - Developing the Duo's Massive Live Sound

4:50 - Gibson J-45

6:27 - Loar & Recording King Guitars

7:04 - Shovels & Rope Pedalboard

10:52 - Rig Rundown & D'Addario

11:25 - Electro-Harmonix Nano Big Muff

12:46 - Thing 1 & Thing 2 microKORGs & Roland PK5 Controller

17:39 - Shovels & Rope's Amps: Fender Blues Junior & Fender Rumble

20:05 - Shovels & Rope's Strings, Tunings & Picks

23:22 - Recording 2024's Something Is Working Up Above My Head

26:40 - D'Addario

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Along with contemporaries like MGMT and Passion Pit, Greenwich, New York, duo Phantogram’s experiments crosspollinating hip-hop, indie, and punk rock helped cement and elevate a new era of electronic-influenced alt-rock and indie music. At the start of the 2010s, you’d be hard-pressed to find a college radio station or dorm-room playlist that didn’t include a Phantogram hit.

Sixteen years after the release of their debut record, band leaders Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, who started Phantogram in a town of just a few thousand people, are touring behind their latest full-length, 2024’s Memory of a Day. The tour included a sold-out stop at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium—a different sort of barn than the kind they used to perform in back in Greenwich—where PG’s John Bohlinger caught up with Carter and Barthel. Courtesy of some help from their tech, the duo showed us how they’re pulling off their theatrical live experience.

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0:00 - XPND Pedal Power Battery Kit

0:15 - Phantogram Josh Carter Playing Intro

0:32 - John Bohlinger Intro

0:43 - Josh Carter's Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass Guitars

4:44 - Josh Carter's Move From Pedals to Neural DSP Quad Cortex

9:25 - Josh Carter's "Run Run Blood" Tones

13:14 - Josh Carter's "Black Out Days" Tones

16:00 - Controlling & Choreographing Quad Cortex

17:58 - Pedals Used on Memory of a Day Album

18:55 - Josh Carter's Amps Modeled in Quad Cortex

20:30 - XPND Adjustable Daisy Chain

21:01 - Phantogram's History

22:53 - Sarah Barthel Intro

23:04 - Sarah Barthel's Fender Mustang Bass

24:07 - Sarah Barthel Adding Bass Guitar to Phantogram

25:23 - Sarah Barthel's Synth Bass Sounds

26:25 - Sarah Barthel's "Feedback" Tones

28:04 - Sarah Barthel on Using a Pick with Bass While Singing

28:32 - Sarah Barthel's "Attaway" Tones

29:54 - Sarah Barthel's Fender Jazzmaster

31:08 - Sarah Barthel's "Happy Again" Tones

32:18 - Sarah Barthel Reconnecting with Josh Carter to Form Phantogram

34:10 - Creating the Phantogram Show Aesthetic

35:44 - Early Phantogram DIY Shows

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