Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Arrivals and Departures (feat. Austin Hanks)

#141 in the Need To Know Badass Blues Instrumental Series, Arrivals and Departures, features a wonderfully patient and tasteful performance by guitarist, Austin Hanks. From the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Alabama now residing in SoCal, Austin has had a pretty interesting career so far. He's written a bunch of songs for the FX series Sons Of Anarchy, he also penned a single on the ZZ Top La Futura albumBilly Gibbons actually produced Austin's album Alabastard. He's also toured and played shows with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, Derek Trucks, Blues Traveler, Black Crowes, Trace Atkins, and Widespread Panic among others. You gotta check out his IG page...he's got selfies with Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper, and Vince Gill to name just a few. Yup, it's all about the hang!  And judging from this remarkably egoless piece of guitar pickin' and the company he keeps, I'm guessing the hang with Austin must be good. Enjoy!

The backing band on this track is Oakland Born/Nashville residing, groovin' AF, Derrek Phillips, (Gloria Gaynor, Robben Ford, Charlie Hunter) on drums, and myself on rhythm guitar and bass. The track was recorded at NTA, South San Francisco, The Phamily Room, Nashville TN, and Johnny Lee Schell's studio in LA . Mellifluously mixed and mastered by the infamous F-Bomb.

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