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    Country Honk

    Jun 04, 2019 4 minutes
    BY JIM BEAUGEZ
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRANTLEY GUTIERREZ
    “THERE WAS A REAL SPECIFIC JCM800 WE WANTED, LIKE AN ’ 81 OR ’ 82. WE FOUND ONE AND IT SOUNDED KILLER”

    NEAR THE END of soundcheck at the Fillmore in New Orleans, where he’s opening for southern rockers Blackberry Smoke, Chris Shiflett leads his three-piece backing band through the boogie shuffle “The Hardest Lessons,” from his new solo album, Hard Lessons (East Beach Records & Tapes/Thirty Tigers). The band locks into a heady groove while Shiflett and co-guitarist Brian Whelan trade solos in a smoky extended jam, veering into psychedelia as Shiflett coaxes interstellar tones from his Les Paul with a glass slide.

    This isn’t the tight, twangy power pop of , his previous solo

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