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Accelerate your results: 215-887-8880 JazzInsideMedia 2 August 2013 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 Jazz Inside-2013-08_002-... Tuesday, July 30, 2013 08:44 page 2 MagentaYellowBlacCyank Feature Interview By Curtis Davenport EK: Oh, boy. Well, it’s like that sometimes, only with the different strings. But I really, you know? really, really enjoyed the sound of classical gui- Jazz Inside: So glad that you could take a little tar, nylon-string guitar - just a very unique in- time to speak with us today. JI: Yeah, so I did definitely get something out strument. of that deal. I know that many people have heard Earl Klugh: Oh, yeah, this is fun. about your, you being influenced by Chet Atkins JI: It’s been very successful for you and the - and I know a lot of folks are a bit surprised to beauty of your style comes through every time JI: I’ve enjoyed your work for quite a while hear that Chet was such an influence on you. we do hear you, it’s very unique and very enjoy- now. If I could just share a story I hope you’ll Can you talk just a little bit about how you got to able. find humorous with you about one of the first be influenced by him? times I heard about you back in high school. EK: Well, thank you. There was a young lady who was, I guess, trying EK: Well, he, just like me, was a nylon string to get to know me a little better, and invite me to player. I was all set for that to be my instrument. JI: Still staying on the line of Chet Atkins …. I come over to her house. She asked me if I had The classical guitar was kind of a big thing back know that you had worked with him for a while ever heard of you, and I had not. But she invited in the early ‘60s. There were a lot of steel string and done some collaboration with him. Was me over and I have to say my interest in your players, but then there were some players who there any particular advice that he gave you that music lasted a lot longer than my interest in her. played nylon strings as well. I gravitated to that really stuck with you, anything about your per- [Laughter] because the first time I tried to play a regular sonal relationship with him that stuck with you? steel-string guitar, non-amplified guitar - boy, the pressure you have to use with your fingers EK: Well, we were good friends. Chet is very Earl Klugh appears at and I mean it was just brutal, you know? So I interesting. He was a very interesting person The Blue Note, New York, July 30 - August 4 stuck with my nylon-string guitar, partially for because he wouldn’t say too much - and the touring in support of his new that, but also, too, you know, it just made sense longer I got to know him, the less he would say. Concord CD HandPicked to me because I guess had I gotten a steel-string He never would utter a disparaging word on Visit: www.EarlKlugh.com guitar, I would have taken it along similar lines - (continued on page 6) 4 August 2013 Jazz Inside Magazine www.JazzInsideMagazine.com To Advertise CALL: 215-887-8880 4-6 Tuesday, July 30, 2013 04:23 page 2 MagentaYellowBlacCyank 08-2013_Lineage_JazzInside 7/26/13 4:28 PM Page 1 NEW! ROCK & POP CLASSICS REVISITED This recording is a look back, but cast in the sound of today. You will be surprised at the direction some Mr Sandman of these classic tunes take. Eleanor. 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