What is Nashville stringing?
It’s the coolest thing in the world. It makes guitar tracks sound huge. We did it on every record. On the first album, we didn’t have a twelve-string guitar – just a six-string acoustic. Beau wanted the intro to Madalaine to sound like a twelve string. He came up with the idea of doing a pass on one track with our regular six string acoustic and then on another track doing a pass with the same guitar – only strung with the top six strings of the twelve string set. It worked great. The sound of the guitar strung with only the high strings was so cool that I had to hear what it would sound like on my electric crankin’ through my Marshalls. It was so bitchin’ that Beau asked me to play through every song and double it. Any time there was a lick, like at the end of a verse, I would double it. I would jam along with any section that we wanted to lift out of the mix and accent a little bit. The strings are tiny and what you’re playing is an octave higher, except for the last two strings, whi
