![]() There's video of me somewhere just completely going bonkers, rolling around on the floor screaming because I had a real guitar at this point." "The thing that was probably most attractive to me about the Telecaster was that it was sort of the anti-hero's guitar." I remember my brother came in, and he said, "Santa forgot, forgot one present." I opened it up, and it was a white Stratocaster. "And then one Christmas, everybody had opened all their presents. "The first guitar I had was a little no-name brand that was a short-scale student model, and I played it until it broke." Here, in his own words, McPherson discusses recording the album in Nashville's historic RCA Studio B, his early inspirations and his connection to the Telecaster: ![]() In 2017, McPherson took yet another step in his march carrying the banner of rock and roll with Undisputed Heart & Soul, an excellent third effort that draws from even more influences than the likes of Buddy Holly and Sonny Curtis that shaped his earlier work. McPherson dug deeper into his love of retro-sounding music and began to shape his own sound, culminating his 2010 debut album, Signs and Signifiers, which was followed in 2015 by the critically acclaimed Let the Good Times Roll. Upon graduation, he became a high school art teacher for a couple of years before he was let go. Instead of farming, he spent much of his childhood navigating the guitar and playing in bands before studying film at the University of Tulsa. That resolute mentality also guided McPherson as he began to create his own music. "We would make the one trip there, I would pick them up and grab rock magazines and read them, and that's how I would plan my next CD purchase." I would call a month ahead to the Fort Smith mall in Arkansas and order CDs. ![]() "So you have to plan that out way in advance. "The hard part (of living far from big cities)is that if you have like this all-consuming passion and need to read as many rock magazines as you can get your hands on, you can't actually get them," McPherson said. Growing up in rural Oklahoma - on a cattle ranch, no less - McPherson's interest in music was initially piqued with '70s classic rock and punk, with much of that indoctrination coming from his older brothers.īut as he got older, McPherson dove headfirst into the even more classic sounds of '50s rock and roll, country, soul and Delta blues, going to great lengths to feed his passion. JD McPherson is nothing if not determined. ![]()
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