My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
I play the guitar every day.
In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield and Sonic Boom. I like those three a lot!
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.
I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more '60s-'70s kind of style, and I write very '60s-'70s.
I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.
I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.
When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some stuff. And he was into all these tunings. He was showing me tunings that people like David Crosby or Neil Young used - like dropped D and open D tunings.
I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.
I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.
I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.
