The Naked Vibes Show features conversations with musicians, artists & healers to ignite your creative genius & elevate you in your spiritual growth.

This episode features guitarist & composer, Rhett Butler. In this radio archive, Rhett joined me in the studio to play live & to talk about his unique skills in playing two guitars at once, as well as his creative inspiration.

Show Notes:
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1:26 - Song: "Shindo Scale"
(features vocals by singer/songwriter Kelly Brown (aka Local Honey)
6:10 - Introducing Guitarist / Composer, Rhett Butler. Rhett talks about how the song came about, talking with an older gentleman in London's Heathrow airport about destruction & terrorism & the shame that we can’t live in peace.
11:53 - Rhett talks about the "job" of a performer - getting your ego out of the way, so you can allow a higher energy to flow through you & to connect more deeply with listeners.
15:00 - Stephen Pressfield talks about getting out of one's own way in order to create art in his book, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles. (get the link here)
15:46 - Rhett talks about his regard for guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel
17:20 - Discussion of Rhett's skill, finger-style playing
18:07 - Live Music Performance: "Chasing Miracles"
20:50 - What it's like to watch Rhett play
21:40 - Story of meeting accordion player, Joel Guzman from Austin (who played accordion in the band in the Jeff Bridges movie, Crazy Heart, & is a frequent guest on Prairie Home Companion). Rhett was the opening act for a concert Guzman did with Joe Ely. Their meeting led to Guzman playing on Rhett's CD, Chasing Miracles
24:44 - Beyond Religion: How to Pray & Get Answers online video course (get the link here)
26:23 - Music channels the larger Spirit of Love & higher levels of consciousness. Rhett talks about the inspiration his little brother, Ashley, brings to him & the way it informs his creativity & his playing.
30:56 - God's Spirit travels through us. Rhett's story of being on Dallas sports talk radio show, The Ticket, & telling his brother Ashley’s story, resulting in fans purchasing $8,000 worth of CD box sets to help with Ashley's cancer treatment!
32:15 - When Rhett needed money the most, it was provided. Great lesson in listening to intuition - to ideas that come to you & acting on them!
33:10 - Rhett describes his technical two-hand playing technique
33:44 - Live Music Performance: "The Chele"
35:55 - Listening to Rhett Butler is one thing, but seeing Rhett Butler is a whole different level.
37:00 - Rhett demonstrates the “tapping method” & explains the difference between it & the traditional method of playing guitar.
39:21 - Rhett talks about his song “All the Love They Can Get” from his In This World record. Explains what inspired him to write it & the creative process behind it.
40:30 -Song: “All the Love They Can Get” - RhettButler.org
42:51 - The intention of Love changes the world.
43:53 - Live Music Performance: Rhett debuts “Fitzwalter” from Chasing Miracles
47:30 - Discussion of transcendent experience of seeing Jeff Beck live.
48:58 -Live Music Performance: Rhett plays “Mantooth”, which can be found on both CDs, A New Way Home & The Atlantis Assignment

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