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When you produce acts like Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Weezer, Green Day, Pink, Rayland Baxter, Keith Urban, and Harry Connick Jr., it\\u2019s hard to find time for your own music. Yet in 2022, Butch Walker managed to release his 10th album, Butch Walker as \\u2026 Glenn\\u2014a surprising tribute to the \\u201970s piano-rock balladeers that were among the rulers of FM radio in his youth. Nonetheless, that didn\\u2019t stop him from bringing a fleet of cool Fender and Gibson guitars, and a hemi of an amp, a Two-Rock Bloomfield Drive, on his recent It\\u2019s About Damn Tour tour.

For Walker, playing those guitars is something of a comeback celebration. In 2007, the house he was renting in Malibu from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers caught fire and the Rome, Georgia, native lost the collection of classic axes he\\u2019d spent a lifetime accumulating, as well as the masters to every song of his own that he\\u2019d recorded. As Walker explains in the Rundown, it was a hard lesson about keeping up with insurance and making sure all his valuable instruments are covered\\u2014which they weren\\u2019t.

Today, he splits time in Nashville, where he\\u2019s also built a new version of his RubyRed studio in the old Warner Music building, from the 1950s. As Walker said in a Facebook post. \\u201cThere\\u2019s been countless hits and amazing country and rock \\u2019n\\u2019 roll songs recorded here over the years. It smells a little funny. It\\u2019s maybe haunted (hell, it was a morgue at one time). But I love it. It\\u2019s got vibe for days, sounds incredible, and people dig working here.\\u201d

So, dig into Walker\\u2019s Rig Rundown, which we filmed in November at Nashville\\u2019s Brooklyn Bowl.

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