We just kind of make it an ongoing thing. How has it evolved after starting in May 2017? The next leg of the All-American Road Show starts in July. ![]() You better bring your whole A-game to try to sing any Dolly Parton song. I didn’t look at her. If you think about, sometimes when you’re doing those things it will freak you out. Anytime I do those things, I have a brief moment of “There’s no reason for anybody but Dolly Parton to be singing Dolly Parton songs.” But I was asked to and was honored to do it and did the best I could.ĭolly Parton is really, really hard. Dolly Parton is - for all the glitter and wigs and kind of showmanship - man, she can throw down. Was it weird singing a Dolly song in front of her? 8’s MusiCares to honor Dolly Parton during Grammy Week. I do have a black tele that somebody put Jack, like the mailbox letters, on the front of it. If it looks like it’s been drug through 400 honky-tonks and had Randy’s name painted on it, I’m fine with it. I’m not a collector in the sense I want something because it’s something that Jimi Hendrix played or something like that. I’m strictly guitars and amplifiers, but pretty much ones that I think I’m going to use. When you get into the old gear scenario, you just keep buying old gear in hopes that you have a backup. That amp was a studio amp of mine for many years before I got hold of another one because I thought I should probably buy another one. I wound up going to a guitar shop in town and, lo and behold, there sits one and that was the first one I ever bought. He lived in Ohio at the time and he had one sitting at his house. It’s going to sound weird name-dropping, but I was writing with Peter Frampton. When did you get your first Fender ’62 Princeton amp? As a fan of guitars and amps, it’s probably one of the coolest things that I’ve ever had happen to me. So we called Fender, and very quickly the conversation escalated to doing something like this, and I’m thrilled. … I wanted a new amp that looked like the old amp and worked like the old amp, and that didn’t exist. I’m not a technician in any way, shape or form and wouldn’t pretend to tell any other guitar player how to play guitar. But this was borne out of me calling Fender up to build this amp for me. No, it’s almost embarrassing, because as a player, I’m a one-trick pony. Does that make you puff out your chest a little bit? You are the first country artist to have a Fender signature amp. Sitting in the control room in Studio A before the festivities, Stapleton talked about the amp, as well as singing for Dolly Parton a few days earlier, the impending arrival of his fifth baby and when fans can expect new music. Let us know what you end up with.Chris Stapleton Announces 2020 All-American Road Show Tour Dates: See Where He's Headed My vote is to go with the 64 CDR - it will cover more bases, sounds better, and gives you a more options. Also, you can jump the channels for even more fun. I've tried some other speakers (in other cabs) but the stock Jensen really works well with this amp and doesn't take long to break in. IMO - The trick for lower volumes is to still use the Bright channel, input 2, and dial the treble down to 3.5 -4 and bass around 6. But at TV volumes = yum! I've played a few gigs back in Nov / Dec with it and it kept up nicely (and had some in reserve) with a rather loud drummer and second guitarist with a Boogie half-stack. Yes, when cranking it up a bit the heavens open up. Put a KoT or similar in front and the universe aligns. The CDR gets the most play by a wide margin. and have had oodles of different things over the years. By far my favorite amp! I've got 7 other Fenders, couple of Boogie, Marshal, EVH, and a few others in the house. ![]() I think mostly due to the smaller-boxier tone.įlash forward a couple of years, and last Fall I picked up the 64 CDR. I tried to gig with this amp and it didn't cut through at all and got buried in the mix - even though it seemed loud to me. Although something about most of these types of amps is that the volume knob is "nothing" up to 1.5 - 2 and then BAM!!! loud. It was a very "even" sounding amp and sounded good for general home use. I had a hand-wired (non)Fender PR type amp with a 12" Weber speaker.
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