Rig Rundown: Butch Walker [2022]

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When you produce acts like Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Green Day, Pink, Rayland Baxter, Keith Urban, and Harry Connick Jr., it’s hard to find time for your own music. Yet in 2022, Butch Walker managed to release his 10th album, Butch Walker as … Glenn—a surprising tribute to the ’70s piano-rock balladeers that were among the rulers of FM radio in his youth. Nonetheless, that didn’t stop him from bringing a fleet of cool Fender and Gibson guitars, and a hemi of an amp, a Two-Rock Bloomfield Drive, on his recent It’s About Damn Tour tour.

For Walker, playing those guitars is something of a comeback celebration. In 2007, the house he was renting in Malibu from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Pepper caught fire and the Rome, Georgia, native lost the collection of classic axes he’d spent a lifetime accumulating, as well as the masters to every song of his own that he’d recorded. As Walker explains in the Rundown, it was a hard lesson about keeping up with insurance and making sure all his valuable instruments are covered—which they weren’t.

Today, he splits time in Nashville, where he’s also built a new version of his RubyRed studio in the old Warner Music building, from the 1950s. As Walker said in a Facebook post. “There’s been countless hits and amazing country and rock ’n’ roll songs recorded here over the years. It smells a little funny. It’s maybe haunted (hell, it was a morgue at one time). But I love it. It’s got vibe for days, sounds incredible, and people dig working here.”

So, dig into Walker’s Rig Rundown, which we filmed in November at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl.

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00:00 - D’Addario XS Strings
00:15 - Butch Walker Intro
02:10 - Gibson ’61 Reissue Custom Shop ES-335
07:26 - Fender ’60s Custom Shop Telecaster
12:23 - Fender Custom Shop ’60s Telecaster Custom
14:18 - 2019 Gibson Explorer
19:34 - 2021 Gibson J-50
22:38 - 1926 Gibson Banjolin
26:20 - Butch Walker's Amps
35:14 - Butch Walker's Pedalboard

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