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Jedd Hughes Wrote Stories About This as a Kid

October 17, 2026 · 1 h 31 min

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Jedd Hughes, one of the most respected songwriter-players in the business joins Playback Sessions for a cinematic conversation behind the career nobody fully knows. 🚀 Book a Free Skills Assessment with Sonora. https://www.learnwithsonora.com/skills-assessment 👇 Want to go deeper? Join the Playback Sessions community for tabs, breakdowns, and more. https://www.skool.com/playback-community-9570 ⏱️ Free Tool for looping videos on YouTube and Instagram https://looper.sonoraintensive.com/ 00:00 – Intro 02:11 – Guitar Party: The Night That Almost Broke Me 04:52 – Selling Out NYC & Chicago Through YouTube 07:26 – Guitar Party Songwriting: One Song a Day 11:48 – Moving to Nashville With $800 13:07 – Bought All 10 Patty Loveless Albums for the Audition 16:30 – The Hootenanny Tour & Meeting His Heroes 23:51 – How Jedd Got the Vince Gill Gig 31:49 – What Playing With Vince Gill Taught Me 40:27 – Night Shades: Making a Record in Isolation 41:42 – Writing With Guy Clark for 10 Years 43:50 – Live Performance: Love and You Is the Only Way to Fly 48:07 – The Songwriting Process Explained 55:38 – The D-Tuning Trick That Unlocks New Ideas 1:22:55 – Vince Gill Gave Me Danny Gatton's Guitar 🎸 Follow Playback Sessions on socials: -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playbacksessions/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playbacksessions -YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Playback-Sessions -Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playbacksessionspodcast -Spotify: @ Playback Sessions Podcast 📍 Filmed live at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee. 🎥 Host: Spencer Handley Guest: Jedd Hughes Editor: Carl Reeverts, Clayton Hopkins, Evan Bowser Executive Producer: Spencer Handley Camera/Sound: Mitch Goudy #PlaybackSessions #SpencerHandley #CarterVintageGuitar #SonoraGuitarIntensive #JeddHughes #VinceGill #Songwriting #AcousticGuitar #NashvilleSessions #DannyGatton #GuitarLesson #AIinMusic #RodneyCrowell #GrandOleOpry

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