INSTRUMENTAL INQUISITION !

GT: Is there anything particular about guitar instrumentals that appeals to you?

LR: I have had the chance now to play the guitar for 60 years and 2020, as crazy as last year was, was also a reminder to me, a lifetime spent with the guitar. It’s 60 years I’ve been playing this year, all in Los Angeles, grew up playing the guitar here. So, I was always fascinated by the guitar as a personality. It was my vocal instrument if you will. The great classical guitarist Segovia always called it a mini-orchestra and that’s proven true. Especially after finally, after all these years, I did this solo guitar record, called Dreamcatcher. So, I got constantly reminded as I was making the record and orchestrating the record and arranging the compositions, that the guitar really is that little orchestra. It can do and be anything to anybody and that’s in the hands of a genius of the likes of Segovia, Chet Atkins, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck or Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell. So, these are all the fellas that I grew up listening to, I heard the personality of each come through the instrument, so I was