the drums sometimes have a tendency to to the Beatles,” he said, “because I didn’t overpower the acoustics of a symphony learn about the Beatles through the Beatles. My dad had a couple of (jazz guitarist) hall.” Even so, Shimabukuro promises that the Charlie Byrd’s albums and they were some trio’s overall sound will be far from mini- of my favorite recordings, I’d listen to them all the time as a kid. And he covered a lot malist. “Dave doesn’t play the guitar in the con- of Beatles songs, right? But I had no idea ventional sense, he really approaches it in that they were Beatles tunes, so all the way a very ambient, very symphonic way,” says up until I was a teenager, I thought songs the bandleader. “Sometimes he gets these like “Let it Be,” “Here, There and Everywhere” and “Yestones that sound terday” were all like horn pads, It just kind of blows me Charlie Byrd origand then someinals. I remember times he sounds away and so I’m very just thinking like, like a string secthankful. I just love playing ‘Charlie Byrd, tion. It’s just real– it’s my passion – and I man, he writes ly neat the kinds just hope to keep going. great melody of sounds that lines!’ And I rehe gets out of his - Jake Shimabukuro member the first instruments, so time I heard the we’ve been havBeatles version of “Yesterday,” I was like, ing a lot of fun, a lot of textures, and just a “Oh, someone wrote lyrics to this song.” lot of richness.” Shimabukuro has had more than a There’ll also be no shortage of onstage effects pedals, which Shimabukuro and half-dozen albums of his own reach the Preston have traded back and forth from Top 10 on Billboard magazine’s world music charts, positioning him to cause at time to time. “There are pedals that work really well least as many mix ups among his youngfor guitar players, but sometimes don’t er listeners. “The Greatest Day” includes work so good for the ukulele, because renditions of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” you’re dealing with acoustic nylon strings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle.” and a piezo pickup,” Shimabukuro says. Expect even more covers a year or so “And then there are pedals that he’ll pass on to me because they don’t sound from now, when Shimabukuro releases as good on his guitar. So we’re always his duets album, for which he’s already turning each other on to different things.” recorded tracks with Willie Nelson, Asleep As Shimabukuro has demonstrated at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, and Michael periodically throughout his career, he’s McDonald. “Of course, all of Michael McDonald’s equally capable of astonishing audiences in solo performances, with or without recordings sound great,” he says, “but to his pedal board. When asked which pedal hear that voice with just my little ukulele he’d want to be stranded on a desert is- behind it, it’s something else, man. I was land with, he answers without hesitation. just smiling ear to ear.” Even after all these years in the spot“Oh wow, I’d just take a nice-sound reverb pedal to give me just a little bit of ambi- light, Shimabukuro still doesn’t take any of ence, and that’s all I would need to be this for granted. “I feel so fortunate for all the opportuhappy. The very first pedal I bought was in high school; it was a Boss and it also had nities that I’ve had in the last 20 years,” he delay settings on it. That led me down the says. “It just kind of blows me away and rabbit hole, and now, about 1,000 pedals so I’m very thankful. I just love playing — it’s my passion — and I just hope to keep later, here I am.” Along the way, Shimabukuro hasn’t for- going.” gotten the Fab Four, whose music helped elevate him into the spotlight. In the years since his breakthrough “While My Guitar What: Jake Shimabukuro Gently Weeps” cover, he’s done songs by When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Where: Rialto Theatre, Harrison. No Ringo Starr, though, but give 318 E. Congress Street him time. Cost: $26-$38 “I’ve got to tell you how I got introduced Info: rialtotheatre.com
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