216 - Jack Schneider (Vince Gill, Solo)

216 - Jack Schneider (Vince Gill, Solo)

In episode 216 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with Jack Schneider who’s just released a solo album “Streets of September” and plays with Vince Gill. In our conversation Jack tells us about his time in college at NYU at the Clive Davis school of music and his connection to New York City. Jack talks about his time in Georgia and high school class that ultimately led him to meet and develop a friendship with George Gruhn… who eventually gave Jack a job documenting a guitar collection that most of which ended up at Belmont University. Jack describes how George Gruhn introduced him to Vince Gill and how that led to a friendship, a job as guitar tech which in turn led to Jack’s gig playing acoustic guitar in Vince’s band. Jack talks about his personal guitar collection which includes a lot of vintage guitars including a ‘52 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top and ‘52 Gibson Southern Jumbo. Jack takes us through his recordings and recent album “Streets of September” as well as his session work and production of others. Jack tells us about his upcoming tour opening for Tommy Emmanuel and potential tours after that. To find out more about Jack you can go to his website: jackschneidermusic.com Please subscribe, like, comment, share and review this podcast! #VintageGuitarMagazine #JackSchneider #VinceGill #StreetsofSeptember #JamesPatrickRegan #GeorgeGruhn #theDeadlies #GruhnsGuitars #GibsonGuitar #CliveDavis #TomBukovac #NYU #haveguitarwilltravelpodcast #HGWT #tourlife

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