{"id":1405,"date":"2016-03-06T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleyjsaunders.com\/wp-blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2022-06-21T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:46:57","slug":"tom-bukovac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/tom-bukovac\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bukovac – Session Guitar Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Bukovac is a long time hero of mine. You’ll shortly see why. Not only is Tom one of the most called session guitarist<\/a> in Nashville, but he’s also tasty in everything that he plays. Plus he’s a super nice guy!<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t heard of\u00a0Tom Bukovac then he’s played with everyone from Keith Urban, to Carrie Underwood<\/a>,\u00a0 to Vince Gill, to Sheryl Crow! He has nearly 600 credits on All Music<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Guitars<\/h2>\n

Tom has played a wide range of guitars from the modern Duesenberg guitars to vintage 1960 Gibson Blonde ES-335 As well as vintage Gibson Les Paul and new high-end Senn Stratocasters.<\/p>\n

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Just to highlight some of Tom’s amazing guitar collection: ’63 Firebird V, ’72 LP Custom, ’64 SG Standard, ’54 LP Goldtop, Gretsch White Penguin and so much more!<\/p>\n

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Pedalboard<\/h2>\n

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XAct Tone Solutions works on most of the Nashville session guys stuff and they’ve built a few pedalboards for Tom<\/a> over the years.<\/p>\n

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The custom pedalboard above starts a clean boost [the RC] next is what looks like a Crybaby Wah. The signal then runs through a few overdrive pedals including the Nobels [a Nashville favourite] and a rehoused Z-vex Box of Rock [a really cool distortion and boost]. After the gain based pedals is a Volume and a Boss GE-7 Equalizer<\/a>, a pedal we should all own!<\/p>\n

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Up next is an Ehx Pog, Ehx Memory Man with Hazarai [which Tom swears by] and a modified boss tremolo.<\/p>\n

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The pedalboard<\/a> is completed by a Line6 M9<\/a>. This multi-effects covers a lot of ground and keeps cropping up on more and more pro boards. I’ve seen them on Tim Pierce and Kenny Greenberg<\/a>‘s pedalboards. Tom is also using the control pedal, next to the wah with the Line6.<\/p>\n

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Tom’s board covers everything that I can imagine he need on a daily basis. It’s also well laid out and easy to use!<\/p>\n

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Amps<\/h2>\n

With amps Tom has used everything from a rack with 3 or 4 amp heads in, feeding a cab in another room to using a Fender 15 watt all tube Princeton combo – used with a 2 x 12 cab. He’s likely to tailor session rig to the artist and producer.<\/p>\n

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He has been using Lazy J J-20, which is a tweed Deluxe clone, lately both live and in the studio. Also, Tom has been using an Ebo Customs 1×12″ combo and old ’68 drip edge Deluxe Reverb, in addition to the Lazy J on tour with Joe Walsh.<\/p>\n

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Videos<\/h2>\n

Now for some videos of Tom Bukovac playing! Enjoy the magic!<\/p>\n

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