In the video for “Desert Raven” you play a unique guitar. Lang) who played pedal steel on the record, brought his Sho-Bud and his own effects. There’s an old Mellotron m400 that shows up a lot. The Vox Continental and ’64 Hammond A-100 comprise most of the organ sounds. Most of the gear was at my studio, so the guys didn’t have to bring much. Roughly half of the record I did alone, and the rest is with a core band that tracked live for a week or so. How did that break down, and did the band bring its own gear? Half the album was done with a group of musicians, and the other half was done on your own. I’d never been a believer in a new acoustic guitar until this one.” “The guitar is tremendous all sustainable woods, 12-fret extra-thick Jumbo, modeled after the Roy Smeck Gibsons of the ’30s. “With the Trance Audio Amulet pickup, this changed the game for me in a concert setting,” Wilson said of the Gibson Jackson Browne Signature model. On some tunes, the parts were doubled an octave up on the Nashville strung acoustic, which makes for a trippy 12-string effect. Most of the acoustics on the record were double-tracked. The electric guitar in “The Way I Feel” was the Gibson ES-355, which has an amazing microphonic bridge pickup, it was just dimed through the Princeton no effects, just a two-microphone setup, one close, one distant. That tune was tracked live, so the solos were kept as they were played. The main guitar on Valley Of the Silver Moon, for instance, is the GVCG T model through the ’63 Vox AC30 with only one pedal – an old MXR script-logo Phase 45. I also use a tweed Champ for bass – small speakers equal big sounds for me in the studio. There is also a fair amount of direct-to-the-console recording of guitar and bass.Īlmost all the bass was recorded direct through my old Telefunken V-72s. Other amps used were a ’67 Marshall plexi Tremolo 50, a ’60 Champ, and a ’66 blackface Super Reverb. The main amps are a ’63 Vox AC30 – Bass model, non-top-boost, and my mainstay amp since I was 13 year old – a ’66 Blackface Princeton Reverb. There are a few other secret weapons/odds and ends – a Jerry Jones Coral Sitar replica, an Old Kraftsman Kay two-pickup hollowbody that has a screaming bridge pickup, a ’62 Gretsch Chet Atkins that was my first great vintage guitar, and a Gibson Skylark lap steel. The main nylon-string acoustic is a ’57 Martin 00-18G. I use an Orange-label Yamaha FG strung Nashville-style, and a few different Guild 12-strings. The main acoustics on the record are my ’46 Martin 000-18 and two Gibson J-50s – a ’47 and a ’62. It has a Duncan Rickenbacker-style pickup that’s just amazing.
The main electrics are a ’73 Gibson ES-355, a ’76 Les Paul Deluxe goldtop, a GVCG (Greenwich Village Custom Guitars, built by Wilson) ’57 with Lollar Pickups, a GVCG ’63 S model with superb Alan Hamel pickups, a ’57 Les Paul Junior, a ’67 Höfner violin bass, a GVCG ’63 J-bass with Duncan Antiquity pickups, and a Guyatone hollowbody Gibson-EB-style bass. What were your main guitars and amps on Gentle Spirit? Wilson, who’s also made a name for himself as a producer (Dawes, Father John Misty, Roy Harper), has a passion for vintage gear and sports an impressive collection. It’s the latest stop on a 25-year musical journey that has taken the 37-year-old North Carolina native from Charlotte to New York to Los Angeles, where he’s played a leading role in the recent “Laurel Canyon Sound” revival. He toured Europe throughout 2012 to widespread acclaim, including a stint opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, turned numerous heads with his performance at the Jerry Garcia 70th birthday celebration gig, and his supporters and collaborators include some of the most respected names in the business, including Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Jackson Browne, and Elvis Costello.īut this isn’t an overnight success story. His Gentle Spirit CD (Bella Union), a hippie-soul drenched 80 minutes of folk-psych-rock goodness, has earned international praise. Jonathan Wilson is having a very good year. Wilson with his home-made Telecaster copy.
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