Roots Rocker

KIRK DOUGLAS — or “Captain” Kirk Douglas, as he’s affectionately known — is certainly aware that his name is something of a head-turner, but for his first solo album, Turbulent Times (Whole Leap Records), the longtime Roots guitarist is billing himself as Hundred Watt Heart. “I’m not trying to be tricky or anything,” he explains, “but I would really like the music to stand on its own and be disassociated with the actor. If I called it the Kirk Douglas Project or something like that, it would get a little confusing. So it’s Hundred Watt Heart. That makes it easier.”

As one might assume, the guitarist is partial to 100-watt amps, particularly his 1978 fawn Marshall and an assortment of Mesa/Boogie heads, but he also used a host of other amplifiers on , such as a Divided By 13 RSA