Emily Wolfe
Emily Wolfe doesn\u2019t play guitar. She bends it to her will. Like a bronco buster taming a stallion, she saddles up on her signature Sheratons and lets it rip. Much of the magic felt and heard on her self-titled debut was pure adrenaline hitting your speaker. And while her second album, 2021\u2019s Outlier, incorporates Wolfe\u2019s love of Motown grooves and modern-pop stickiness refreshening her songwriting with backdrops of more polished, waxy tones, but tumbleweed oscillation, helicopter, square-wave chops, and barbed-wire fuzz are still howls welcomed in this Wolfe pack.
\u201cWhen I go up there, something could hit me at any point\u2014an emotion that I felt 10 years ago could come out in a bend on the low E. There\u2019s so much rawness [to classic rock]; the edges are not perfect, but there\u2019s a magic in that,\u201d explained Wolfe to PG.
But how do you marry earworm poppiness with a gunslinger\u2019s approach to guitar?
\u201cSome of my rock friends say, \u2018Pop isn\u2019t relevant,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018What are you talking about\u2014it\u2019s everywhere!\u2019 It\u2019s so sticky for people, and that\u2019s really fascinating to me. I want my music to have that quality \u2026 but also the realness of a raw guitar tone. [With Outlier] I wanted to make something that would be classic 10, 20, 30 years from now,\u201d she told PG in 2021. \u201cThat was the goal, and I think we achieved it.\u201d
Before Wolfe\u2019s headlining show at Nashville\u2019s Blue Room (located inside the Third Man Records compound), PG\u2019s Chris Kies joined the shredding songwriter onstage to talk shop. The resulting conversation covers the development behind her Epiphone Sheraton, how a boring night in Cleveland spent with her \u201cChex-mix crushing, brother-in-tone\u201d bass player Evan Nicholson convinced her play a doubleneck guitar, and we discover what three pedals work together to make what she describes as \u201cthe sound that belongs to me.\u201d
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00:00 - D\u2019Addario XPND Pedalboard
00:15 - Emily Wolfe Playing Intro
00:34 - Chris Kies & Emily Wolfe Intro
01:08 - Epiphone Emily Wolfe Signature Sheraton Stealth
05:36 - Selecting the Epiphone Alnico Classic PRO pickups
08:48 - Emily Wolfe's Strings & Picks
10:31 - Epiphone Emily Wolfe "White Wolfe" Sheraton Signature
13:09 - Epiphone G-1275
17:05 - Fender Hot Rod DeVille 410 III
19:51 - Emily Wolfe's Pedalboard
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