E9570 - Doyle Bramhall II: The Upside-Down Guitarist Trusted by Clapton and Waters

Doyle Bramhall II plays a guitar flipped over for a left-hander with the strings left in place, so the thinnest string sits at the top and every bend has to be pulled toward the floor. This episode argues that his counterintuitive technique mirrors an entire career built on flipping a suffocating legacy on its head. Born in Dallas in 1968, he is the son of Doyle Bramhall Sr., a songwriter and drummer who played with Lightnin' Hopkins and Freddie King and was a lifelong collaborator of childhood friends Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. By eighteen he was touring with the...