Hi all ,

 
Ice Road Tele
https://soundcloud.com/guitarist-kenny-wilson/ice-road-tele
This is my first and only take over the Twanger Central 160 Backing Track
I wanted to keep it simple and melodic ..I hope I achieved that goal .
More importantly I hope some of you here on the forum enjoy the guitar playing
Kenny

Hi Kenny - long time no talk. I hope you are well mate.
This is some lovely playing and the guitar tone is fecking fantastic

Thank you Daryl
 
Kenny

This is cool Kenny. Lovely phrasing and dynamics, tasty controlled bends too. Good to hear you play after a long time 
 
Had to smile at that lick at 0:27, I do that a lot, what would you call it?

Ooohhhh!  This is delicious.  Very sexy and jazzy.  Your guitar work is superb.
 
John B.

Sounds good Kenny. You still got the chops. (I've been looking for mine. So that's where they went!) But, that's a Tele? i would have thought it was a LP or something. Well, it sounds real good, whatever it is.
 
Bill

jamesg1213
This is cool Kenny. Lovely phrasing and dynamics, tasty controlled bends too. Good to hear you play after a long time 

Hi James ,
One this clip I wanted to get away from playing my guitar as a guitarist and play it  more along the lines of how I would sound on the guitar if I could sing w my voice  . I'm glad you enjoyed .
 

jamesg1213
Had to smile at that lick at 0:27, I do that a lot, what would you call it?

 
Gulp, for now I'm just gonna have to call it the lick that made me realize what I smoked 5 mins ago just kicked in
 
thanks for giving this one a listen .
 

Johnbee58
Ooohhhh!  This is delicious.  Very sexy and jazzy.  Your guitar work is superb.
 
John B.

Hello John ,
 
I'm glad my guitar playing reached you . thank you for the super kind words you said
 

Wayfarer
Sounds good Kenny. You still got the chops. (I've been looking for mine. So that's where they went!) But, that's a Tele? i would have thought it was a LP or something. Well, it sounds real good, whatever it is.
 
Bill

Hi Bill,
 
Yes my Chops went MIA for a while , so I do know the feeling ...
 
I couldn't play for a few months . It was just way too painful to move my right arm and place it over the guitars body for proper right hand picking and playing movement .
 
For healing and motivation I put all my guitars away. I needed a fresh motivation for my new ground zero .
I went out and bought me a brand new Squier Tele in Racing Green w a little battery powered amp .
The Tele I bought looks just like this one from a store photo
 
 
 
No matter where I was in my apt ( even in the crapper ) I had this little guitar and amp rig in my line of vision ...
I would just sit there all by my self or with my dog Duke and tell myself I 'm gonna get back into playing again ..
 
I remember when I started to play again I could only last about 5 mins before the  pain would shut me down ..
For about the past 6 weeks ,  I have been able to play w out getting shut out VIA the pain .
 
I'm very happy you like my guitar playing and the sound it makes on this tune
 
all the best ,
 
Kenny
 

Always a pleasure to hear you play Kenny, good also to know things are improving for you health wise.

Loved this sweet tones, phrasing and feel.   

I didn't know you were in pain like that. Glad you got through it!
 
I really like green Tele's. I think forest green is my favorite shade, but I like them all. The best Tele's I've ever played were lake placid blue from the late 60's that had faded to green. I don't know why, but every one I ever played just sounded incredible.
 
My current Tele (and my Tele for life!) is one I put together from parts I found mostly on eBay. It's a sunburst MIM body with a neck I bought from a guy in Canada who ships Canadian Rock Maple to some place in Korea that makes them into Tele and Strat necks built to his specs. Mine has a 1 3/4" nut width to accommodate more intricate jazz chords and fingerpicking. I like MIM bodies because you can still fit the old 3-barrel brass bridges on them, and they just have a thick, meaty, bluesy sound that I've never gotten with any other saddles. Intonation? We don't need no stinking intonation.  And if you ever look to going noiseless with pickups, I highly recommend these Dimarzio Area T pups. No one would ever know they had a dummy coil. They have some kind of dampening material around the dummy coil that does a great job of keeping it's magnetism from interacting with the main coil. Dimarzio really has this noiseless thing down.
 
Bill

I like watching that show *ice road truckers*.  While not a fan of green guitars,  I am a fan of your playing.  It was very thoughtful and heartfelt beginning to end.