Pucker - Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola (2013)

Remember when I was going to praise D’Angelo and wound up talking more about how Charlie Hunter played on a couple tracks? Yeah, that was wild. But Hunter is that kind of talent for me. I love so many of his projects. A lot of them over the years have involved Amendola as drummer.

Hunter’s schtick is that he plays a custom-made 8-string guitar with both bass and treble strings on it. He basically plays bass and lead at the same time, and does it smoothly enough that you might not notice there’s only one guitar involved.

This is a pretty typical outing for Hunter. He has an obvious chemistry and trust with Amendola, who gets to play expressively without overpowering his partner.