Have Guitar Will Travel

232 - Lydia Luce In episode 232 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with singer/songwriter violist and guitarist Lydia Luce. In their conversation Lydia joins us from her home studio in Nashville and talks about one of her alma mater Berklee college of music in Boston. Lydia describes her musical upbringing her mother being a classical conductor with Lydia playing violin and her primary instrument viola, moving to guitar and her songwriting. Lydia discusses her new album “Mammoth” and talks about being very pregnant at the time of the interview hence no current tour dates. Lydia tells us about her physical journey, growing up in Ft. Lauderdale moving to Boston then Washington D.C., Los Angeles and finally ending up in Nashville. Lydia talks about a group of string players she curates for shows and sessions in Nashville called “Lockeland Strings” and she takes us through the ambient music she makes. Lydia describes her Wa...

231 - Jake Banfield In episode 231 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with singer/songwriter Jake Banfield. In their conversation Jake talks about his college basketball career and his love of sports particularly the Sooners teams and he talks about his hometown of Tulsa. Jake tells us about his new debut album “Open Bars” and the songwriting sessions he’s apart of both for his follow up album and for other artists. Jake gives us his musical history after a college basketball injury sidelined him and tells us about how the purchase of a Martin guitar changed his life. Jake describes how a song he wrote and recorded “ Hold Me” went viral and caught the attention of management in LA and in turn Nashville and how that led to his album and his writing sessions. Jake discusses his previous tours and his future tours many of which are international and how he makes the ends meet financially and he talks about his new album. ...

230 - Hunter Metts In episode 230 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine host James Patrick Regan speaks with singer/songwriter Hunter Metts. In their conversation Hunter tells us about his touring schedule and the lineup of his band while touring and the types of venues he’s playing. Hunter describes growing up in the outskirts of Nashville singing and playing guitar at a young age at church and listening to Nick Drake and Little Feat and Bonnie Raitt. Hunter talks about his different tunings and playing finger style. Hunter tells us about his new EP “A Crater Wide” and driving to Colorado to record the album and he talks about the instrumentation on the album and he describes his guitars. Hunter gives us his strategy for finding cheap hotels while on tour and he talks about self managing his career. Hunter tells us what he does with his days off while on the road and while he’s at home. To find out more about Hunter you can go to his website: huntermett...

229 - Marcus Deml In episode 229 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine,host James Patrick Regan speaks with Guitarist Marcus Deml. In their conversation Marcus talks about his physical journey as a child from the former Czech Republic to Austria and to Germany, Hamburg being his current home in the forest which also houses his studio. Marcus describes his gear in detail and talks about his friendship with fellow german Reinhold Bogner whom he met while attending GIT in Hollywood, Marcus is partially responsible for helping Bogner design the Ecstasy. Marcus takes us through his musical history, starting on jazz studying in Munich before moving to Hollywood to attend Musicians Institute and Marcus tells us why he chose MI and his goal of becoming a session guitarist. Marcus describes the culture shock of moving to Hollywood at 20 after growing up in Europe and he talks about his return to Europe after seven years of working doing sessions and teaching at MI...

228 - Duane Smith - the Chevelles In episode 228 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with Duane Smith, Singer and Guitarist with the Chevelles. In their conversation Duane tells us a little about his home town of Perth, Australia and the Chevelles new single “Caveman” and his alter ego surf band the Stingrays. Duane talks about his gear for both bands and tells us about his home studio where he records both bands. Duane walks us through the history and the lineups of the Chevelles throughout the years and talks a bit about his side job as a psychiatrist and he talks about his childhood and being named after guitarist Duane Eddy. Duane describes how bootlegs of their early albums kickstarted their career both in Spain and Brazil and how that eventually led to them catching the attention of Little Steven and be signed by his label, Wicked Cool Records and eventually writing songs with Little Steven. Finally Duane discusses...

227 - Rome Ramirez (Sublime with Rome, Solo) In episode 227 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with singer/songwriter Rome Ramirez from Sublime as well as his solo work. In their conversation Rome talks about growing up in Fremont, California and living now in Nashville and he walks us through his early musical journey. Rome discusses enrolling in Musicians Institute only to leave after a short while to do studio work in Orange County. Rome talks about a song he wrote for the Dirty Heads “Lay Me Down” and how that song changed his trajectory and eventually had him playing guitar and singing with the band Sublime. Rome discusses how he moved on from Sublime and decided to go solo and he talks about writing songs for Enrique Iglesias and Selena Gomez. Rome tells us about his band and his solo album that is being produced by Dan Huff and will be out in early 2026. Rome talks gear his guitars now and with Sublime and his ho...