Latest Rigrundown Podcast Episodes
David Ryan Harris
Rig Rundowns - November 08, 2023 16:19 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsGuitarist and singer-songwriter David Ryan Harris rose to prominence as a key part of John Mayer’s band between 2004 and 2012, and he’s backed everyone from Santana to Dave Matthews to Nick Jonas. But as a solo artist and bandleader, Harris has been spinning gorgeous R&B, blues, and funk for dec...
Brian Setzer [2023]
Rig Rundowns - November 01, 2023 15:07 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsTwo-time Grammy Award-winning rockabilly hero Brian Setzer recently played a sold-out show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in support of his new solo album, The Devil Always Collects. Tyler Sweet, who has teched for Setzer for 17 years, took PG’s John Bohlinger through the rig that rocked this t...
Little Feat
Rig Rundowns - October 26, 2023 14:38 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFormed in 1969 by slide guitar juggernaut Lowell George, disbanded after his death in ’79, then revitalized in 1987, Little Feet combines George’s bandmate and co-writer Fred Tacket along with virtuoso Scott Sharrad in their new recording and touring lineup. Tacket and Sharrad invited PG’s John ...
Fontaines D.C.
Rig Rundowns - October 25, 2023 14:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsIrish rock band Fontaines D.C. is a dual-guitar ensemble featuring Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley. At first, the duo used similar guitars, amps, and settings in an effort to work as a symbiotic saw buzzing their way through songs. The indistinguishable incisions lacerated their earliest work ...
The Band CAMINO
Rig Rundowns - October 11, 2023 19:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratings“‘Stumbled into guitar’ is a good way of putting our start with the instrument. [Spencer Stewart] and I formed the band in 2015 and that’s when I got my first electric guitar,” admits The Band CAMINO’s vocalist and guitarist Jeffery Jordan. That sort of sideways T-bone collision into guitardom ...
American Football
Rig Rundowns - October 04, 2023 20:14 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsThe 15-year history of Rig Rundown has established that guitar gear fascination (and obsession) runs deep in our community. It’s the life blood of our show. But if there was ever antithetical example to guitar gluttony and equipment idolatry, it would be American Football. Their original self-pr...
Alter Bridge [2023]
Rig Rundowns - September 27, 2023 16:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsPG’s John Bohlinger hung with Alter Bridge’s two-man guitar army, Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy, before their sold-out show at The Orpheum Theater in Memphis. Tremonti and Kennedy showcased some beautiful signature Paul Reed Smith guitars, as well as a not-yet-released PRS signature amp. Than...
Emily Wolfe
Rig Rundowns - September 20, 2023 14:49 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEmily Wolfe doesn’t play guitar. She bends it to her will. Like a bronco buster taming a stallion, she saddles up on her signature Sheratons and lets it rip. Much of the magic felt and heard on her self-titled debut was pure adrenaline hitting your speaker. And while her second album, 2021’s Out...
Steve Vai [2023]
Rig Rundowns - September 13, 2023 19:06 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsSteve Vai is much more than a great guitarist. The American guitarist has established himself as a key figure in guitar culture, and one of the world’s leading masters of shred. Vai broke on the scene in 1980 as Frank Zappa’s transcriptionist, until Zappa hired Vai, age 20, to join his touring b...
Derek Wells
Rig Rundowns - September 13, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsIt might actually be easier to list the artists Derek Wells hasn’t worked with, than the ones with whom he has. The Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and producer has lent a hand to more than 100 number one singles over the years, with household staples like Kenny Chesney, Maren Morris, Dol...
Hermanos Gutiérrez
Rig Rundowns - September 12, 2023 14:57 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsWhen some people travel, they take photos on their phone to remember the trip. Old-soul voyagers will recount their adventures with pen and paper. But for Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez, who together make the globetrotting Ecuadorian-Swiss duo Hermanos Gutiérrez, their experiences conjure sound...
Diarrhea Planet
Rig Rundowns - August 23, 2023 20:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsNashville has long been the hub for all things country music but in the last two decades, transplant rockers like Jack White, the Black Keys, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine, Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner and others, have all have made the 615 home. Adding to its growth is the organic blossoms generat...
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rig Rundowns - August 17, 2023 15:08 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFor more than two decades, trailblazing acoustic guitarists Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero have been blending metal, flamenco, pop, and jazz with their Grammy-winning duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, and they’re not showing any sign of slowing down. They’re currently on the road in support of thei...
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin [2023]
Rig Rundowns - August 09, 2023 15:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsA decade ago, Vince Gill and Paul Franklin recorded Bakersfield, a tribute to the raw-boned country music that came out of the rough-and-rowdy clubs patronized by oil-field hands and agricultural workers in the ’50s and early ’60s—packed with songs by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. And we visited...
Nile Rodgers
Rig Rundowns - August 02, 2023 14:25 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFull Rig Details:https://bit.ly/NileRodgersRR Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Since the early ’70s, the guitar legend has trusted his 1960 “Hitmaker” Strat to turn out chart toppers that have changed the course of music history and shaped cultures around the world. ...
Billy Strings [2023]
Rig Rundowns - July 26, 2023 16:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsIt’d be hard to argue that anyone has changed their sound as much as Billy Strings has in the last 10 years. If you reference the pre-war traditional collaboration albums he first did with Don Julin (Rock of Ages and Fiddle Tune X), and his solo debut EP Billy Strings, and then witnessed one of ...
Joey Landreth
Rig Rundowns - July 19, 2023 20:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsCanadian alt-country group the Bros. Landreth have become known for bringing not just layers of blues, rock, and eclectic modern influence to the traditional country sound, but for Joey Landreth’s depth as a guitarist and stunning tone on the instrument. Built on a lifetime of brothers Joey and...
Converge
Rig Rundowns - July 13, 2023 15:15 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsKurt Ballou takes tone very seriously. He’s been on the leading edge of aggressive guitar sounds since 1990, and Converge’s fourth album, 2001’s Jane Doe, is still seen as a game-changing release, with its ferocious performances and masterful production. His sonic temple, God City Studio, is the...
Whitechapel
Rig Rundowns - July 05, 2023 15:44 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsTennessee has a rich tradition that has helped shape American music. Memphis was a big contributor to blues, soul, and early rock ’n’ roll thanks to Sun, Stax, and the influx of Delta musicians. Nashville has been the long-standing capital of country music, and more recently, has developed as a ...
The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd
Rig Rundowns - June 28, 2023 18:55 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsOver the last four decades, the courageous and creative Flaming Lips have put out 16 studio albums. Their genre is an alphabet soup that ranges from acid rock and ambient to zany psychedelia, all while pumping on a pop heartbeat. They’ve won three Grammys, written and filmed an alien colonizatio...
Yvette Young [2023]
Rig Rundowns - June 21, 2023 19:38 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsSince we last saw Yvette Young in 2019, the guitar-playing musical illustrator has been challenged, and proven courageous. “I went from a situation where I was afraid of one of my bandmates, and did what I needed to do to free myself from what I felt to be an emotionally, and thus creatively dr...
Warren Haynes [2023]
Rig Rundowns - June 14, 2023 21:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsMaestro Warren Haynes invited PG’s John Bohlinger to Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, where they hang out after Gov’t Mule’s soundcheck and take a tour through his live rig. This Gibson-heavy collection has been a 40-year-work in progress for the guitarist, who has spent his career playing...
Rival Sons' Scott Holiday [2023]
Rig Rundowns - June 07, 2023 20:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsIt’s all about the yin and yang … and the heavy guitar tones when Scott Holiday of Rival Sons plugs in and rocks out onstage. This year, the band has got something special cooking: a pair of albums, the just-released Darkfighter and the upcoming Lightbringer, speaking of yin and yang. On the cu...
Lindsay Ell [2023]
Rig Rundowns - May 31, 2023 21:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsTwo months ago, Lindsay Ell released her latest single, “Sweet Spot,” plus she’s on the way to issuing a new album, following up 2020’s Heart Theory. And for the tour leading into her next record, she’s also got a passel of updated gear since her 2018 Rig Rundown. No surprise, since there’s alwa...
Theo Katzman
Rig Rundowns - May 24, 2023 18:21 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsTheo Katzman plays with a fluency and fire that makes this guitarist, producer, singer, and songwriter an MVP of modern, funk-fueled rock and pop. At a recent gig at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl outpost, Katzman—who’s also a member of the formidable Vulfpeck collective—invited PG’s Rig Rundown team...
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Band
Rig Rundowns - May 17, 2023 15:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsFourteen years after their Grammy-winning debut, Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss followed up with Raise the Roof—which was nominated for three more Grammys. Now on tour, the duo also has a new band that includes bassist Viktor Krauss, guitarist JD McPherson, and utility player Stuar...
Periphery [2023]
Rig Rundowns - May 10, 2023 19:53 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsOur third Rig Rundown with Periphery’s Jake Bowen, Mark Holcomb, and Misha Mansoor—at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works on April 2—caught the band on their final tour stop for a spring run in support of the brand-spankin’-new Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre. Our time with the triumvirate of ton...
Underoath
Rig Rundowns - May 03, 2023 19:04 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratings“Tone is not important,” is an interesting phrase to hear while filming a Rig Rundown. But Underoath’s Tim McTague has good reason to shake his head at tone purists. “Gear infatuation can be super cool because it’s a passion or a hobby, but it’s not necessary for me to do my job. I don’t want t...
Larkin Poe
Rig Rundowns - April 27, 2023 05:15 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratings“Our relationship is everything about this band,” conceded Rebecca Lovell to PG in 2022. “The way that we communicate, the way that we play together, the way that we facilitate one another’s musicianship. It is the air that we breathe as a band, and everything revolves around our siblinghood.” ...
Tim Pierce
Rig Rundowns - April 26, 2023 14:49 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsTim Pierce’s guitar can be heard on more than a thousand recordings, starting in the ’80s, when he played on hits by Bon Jovi, John Waite, and Rick Springfield. In subsequent years, he’s added to his resume with recorded performances for Crowded House, Christina Aguilera, Seal, Avril Lavigne, Tr...
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