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Wong Notes

Hi, my name is Cory Wong. This is my podcast. I"m going to talk to your favorite artists as they discuss their personal tricks of the trade, never-before-heard stories, and the proper response when Sinatra wants to peep your master tapes.

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01:18:45

Wong Notes Live! with Matteo Mancuso

Wong Notes ·

2025/12/10

Back in August, at Cory Wong’s Syncopated Summer Camp in Nashville, Wong hosted a late-night interview and hang session with Italian guitar hero Matteo Mancuso. If you weren’t there, you’re in luck: This week’s episode ofWong Notesfeatures that exclusive rendezvous in its entirety, recorded live in front of an audience of camp attendees.Mancuso unearths his roots on the guitar, from starting on the electric guitar to learning Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix while using his father’s

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01:13:41

The Trey Anastasio Takeover Continues!

Wong Notes ·

2025/11/12

Phish’s Trey Anastasio is back again on this week’s extra-special episode ofWong Notes. The expansive conversation goes from the mundane to the massive: Trey shares the meaningful gift he bought himself for his 60th birthday, reflects on his most meaningful song, dissects boredom and nostalgia in the streaming era, and names the young bands impressing him most these days.Then, Trey and Cory dig deep into the songwriting process, and Trey reflects on how his songwriting has (and hasn’t) changed over

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01:04:17

Trey Anastasio on Dumbles, Broadway, and 40-Plus...

Wong Notes ·

2025/10/29

Imagine being in a band with your best friends for over 40 years, and each night you step on stage you get to play one more show. That’s exactly what guitarist Trey Anastasio and his bandmates in Phish think about right before every sold-out arena or amphitheater show. “We're all hyper aware now, every night,” mentions Anastasio. “I mean, we just love it so much. It's like, I can't wait for the tour to start.” Anastasio’s energy and passion is infectious, even when he isn’t talking about music

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01:10:17

Blake Mills and Pino Palladino

Wong Notes ·

2025/10/16

This go around, Cory Wong is joined by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills. Palladino, a Grammy-winning bassist, has collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu and Keith Richards to John Mayer and the late, great D’Angelo. Mills’ resumé includes work with Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, and Joni Mitchell. The duo has been around the block. Wong probes all corners of their creative processes, from the purpose of the music they make, to dealing with “unnatural” elements of the creative process, to layering parts

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01:04:52

The Fearless Flyers: Flight School is in Session!

Wong Notes ·

2025/10/01

Welcome back for a special episode ofWong Notes! If you couldn’t make it to Cory’s Syncopated Summer Camp, this one’s for you: It features Wong and his Flyers bandmates—Nate Smith on drums, Joe Dart on bass, and Mark Lettieri on guitar—in a live masterclass recording from this summer, as they jam and break down an original composition.The group starts off with a rowdy rip through the tune (which, apparently, didn’t go so well when they played it in Italy) before slowing down its constituent parts

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58:21

James Bay on Failed Solos, Onstage Adrenaline, and...

Wong Notes ·

2025/09/18

On this episode, James Bay joins Cory Wong from backstage at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. (It takes Wong all of 10 seconds to recognize and name the green room.) Bay is still supporting his fourth full-length record,Changes All the Time, and Wong picked up on a different guitar approach on the new album. Bay walks him through how his playing matched the collection’s title.Bay also reveals the first solo he learned to play (or, rather,failedto learn to play; it’s a Bon Jovi hit), and how Jack

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01:12:34

Goose's Rick Mitarotonda: Can Jambands Write Great...

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2025/09/03

Sound the alarms, tell your neighbors, hire a banner plane: Wong Notes is back. Cory Wong’s beloved podcast returns after a healthy break, and this exciting comeback episode features Wong in conversation with Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda.The Connecticut rock band’s guitarist and vocalist talks through the band’s origins and position in the jam-band and broader music scenes, and Wong and Mitarotonda debate an ancient, critical question: Can jam bands actually write great songs?The duo talk through their

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01:24:18

Brad Paisley on Fish, Phish, and the Origins of the...

Wong Notes ·

2025/05/14

Welcome back for a special season finale ofWong Notes! We’ve saved one of the best for last: Brad Paisley.The celebrated shredder and seasoned fisherman joins host Cory Wong for one of this season’s most interesting episodes. Paisley talks his earliest guitar-playing influences, which came from his grandfather’s love of country music, and his first days in Nashville—as a student at Belmont University, studying the music industry. The behind-the-curtain knowledge he picked up at Belmont made him a

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01:06:13

Joe Satriani is Back!

Wong Notes ·

2025/04/30

Legendary shredder Joe Satriani was the first ever guest onWong Notes, so it makes sense that he’s the first returning sit-in with Cory Wong. Satch is busy as ever, juggling enough projects to make a normal guitarist’s head spin. But Satriani’s not a normal guitarist.He teases a new song with Sammy Hagar, plus delves into the intricacies of Eddie Van Halen’s playing and why he can’t quite replicate it—every guitarist has their strengths and deficiencies, claims Satch. And believe it or not, Satriani

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50:34

Don’t Call Grace Bowers a Blues-Rock Guitarist

Wong Notes ·

2025/02/12

Grace Bowers just released her debut record, 2024’sWine on Venus, with her band the Hodge Podge, but she’s already one the most well-known young guitarists in America. On this episode ofWong Notes, Bowers talks through the ups, downs, and detours of her whirlwind career.Bowers started out livestreaming performances on Reddit at age 13, and came into the public eye as a performer on social media, so she’s well acquainted with the limits and benefits of being an “Instagram guitarist.” She and Cory

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01:06:37

“Crank That Sh*t Up!” Greg Koch on Teaching,...

Wong Notes ·

2025/01/29

You might not know Greg Koch, but we’ll bet your favorite guitarist does. In 2012, Fender called the Wisconsin blues-guitar phenom one of the top 10 best unsung guitarists, and in 2020,Guitar Worldlisted Koch among the 15 best guitar teachers. He’s been inducted into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame. Koch is a bonafide midwest guitar god.He joins Cory Wong on this round ofWong Notesfor this meeting of the Middle-America minds, where the duo open with analysis of music culture in

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59:25

The Journey of Jazz Guitarist Mike Stern

Wong Notes ·

2025/01/08

Mike Sternhas been around the block. The jazz-guitar virtuoso earned his stripes through the ’70s and ’80s in New York’s jazz scene, playing 6-string with drummer Billy Cobham before tapping in with artists like Miles Davis and Jaco Pastorius—even at a time when guitar wasn’t necessarily a cornerstone piece of a jazz outfit. In this episode ofWong Notes, Stern fills Cory Wong in on the ups and downs of 50 years spent in one of the most complex and underappreciated music genres.Stern made the leap to

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01:06:09

“Get It Right, Get It Fast”: Jerry Douglas on...

Wong Notes ·

2024/12/18

Bluegrass music is bigger than a genre. It’s become an entire world of ideas and feelings in the popular American imagination. And musician Jerry Douglas has been a key part of its celebration and revival over the past 30 years. “It's an old form of music that came from people in the south playing on the porch and became this juggernaut of a genre,” says Douglas. “It’s a character. It's a physical music.”Douglas has racked up an impressive cabinet of accolades, including Grammies, American Music

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01:07:44

Superstar Bassist Blu DeTiger: “Wanna Get Gigs? Be a...

Wong Notes ·

2024/12/04

At 26, Blu DeTiger is the youngest musician ever to have a signature Fender bass guitar. The Fender Limited Player Plus x Blu DeTiger Jazz Bass, announced in September, pays tribute to the bassist and singer’s far-reaching impact and cultural sway. She’s played with Caroline Polachek, Bleachers, FLETCHER, Olivia Rodrigo, and more, and released her own LP in March 2024. In 2023, Forbes feature her on their top 30 Under 30 list of musicians. So how did DeTiger work her way to the top?DeTiger opens up

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55:07

Mark Tremonti: “Play Like Grandma’s in the Room”

Wong Notes ·

2024/11/13

There probably aren’t too many artists out there as busy as Mark Tremonti. Aside from his celebrated careers in alt-rock mainstays Creed and Alter Bridge, the guitarist, songwriter, and singer organizes guitar and songwriting clinics while on tour; has a line of signature PRS gear; and cut a 14-track charity record,Mark Tremonti Sings Sinatra. Did we mention he’s aiming to become a pinball kingpin, too?Tremonti joins Cory Wong on this episode ofWong Notesto dig into his musical trajectory since the

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59:31

Skunk Baxter: Hostage Negotiations in the Studio

Wong Notes ·

2024/10/30

“Skunk” Baxter has had an interesting career. The Washington, D.C.-born musician was one of Steely Dan’s founding members in the early 1970s, and played on some of their most iconic numbers, likeCan’t Buy a Thrill’s’ “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Do It Again,” orPretzel Logic’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” Then, he moved on to join the Doobie Brothers, from roughly 1974 to 1979, where he fatefully invited Michael McDonald into the band. After that stint, he became a go-to session player for artists

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01:22:27

Jason Newsted Wants You to Put Your Damn Phone Away

Wong Notes ·

2024/10/16

Jason Newsted spent 15 years holding down the low end in Metallica, playing bass for the band from 1986 through 2001. That era included records like…And Justice For AllandMetallica—AKAThe Black Album—plus the iconicS&Mlive album with the San Francisco Symphony.But that was just the beginning for Newsted, an artistic polymath who has since pursued a life of balance and creative freedom. On this episode ofWong Notes, he opens up to Cory Wong about why he left Metallica, and details the “Olympian”

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01:08:34

Dave Navarro on Trainwrecks, Rabbit Holes, and the...

Wong Notes ·

2024/10/02

We know what you’re thinking: Dave Navarro is gonna talk about the onstage brawl. But Cory Wong starts this episode ofWong Noteswith an important caveat. This show was recorded long before the awful breakdown and confrontation between Navarro and Jane’s Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell, so don’t expect any salacious gossip. But that just makes this episode all the more interesting.Navarro talks Wong through his formative influences, from Hendrix, Zeppelin, and the Doors to Maiden, heavy metal, and

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51:54

Keith Urban: “I’m Not Chasing Tone, I’m Pursuing...

Wong Notes ·

2024/09/18

Keith Urban has spent decades traveling the world and topping global country-music charts, and on this episode ofWong Notes, the country-guitar hero tells host Cory Wong how he conquered the world—and what keeps him chasing new sounds on his 6-string via a new record,High, which releases on September 20.Urban came up as guitarist and singer at the same time, and he details how his playing and singing have always worked as a duet in service of the song: “When I stop singing, [my guitar] wants to say

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56:11

Kurt Rosenwinkel Weighs In

Wong Notes ·

2024/05/31

This time onWong Notes, guitar legend Kurt Rosenwinkel joins Cory Wong to go deep on all things jazz. The genre has always been a haven for free-thinkers and adventurers, so it’s little surprise when Rosenwinkel reveals that he’s incorporated a Fractal FM9 into his live rig—though it’s still working in tandem with a good ol’ Fender tube amp.Rosenwinkel divulges the details on his “softer, darker” attack, which combined with his approach to tone—including a fair bit of top-end roll-off—constitutes a

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