Charlie Starr: Open-Tuning Magic on “Azalea”

Enjoy a bit of the supremely tasty “Azalea,” played by Charlie Starr and his ’55 Gibson J-45. It’s just one of the great vintage guitars (check out the two ’63 Everly Brothers in back) you’ll hear on Blackberry Smoke’s new album, “Be Right Here,” which is reviewed in the June issue, accompanied by an interview in which Charlie digs into it. Both can be read right here. online.fliphtml5.com/pyepf/av...

[@raythackston1960]

Lucky enough to know Charlie since way back in the early 1990's...he is a great guy and a great player and singer. Good to see a local guy do great!

[@TheOpinionatedGuitarist]

I’d love t spend the day with Charlie talkin music n gear!

[@user-et2fj8xm5l]

Love live Charlie and the Smoke

[@toddj9548]

My favorite player and songwriter!

[@rafe2787]

This song puts me in a zen like state

[@brownsfan7753]

I love this!!!

[@davidcraft4919]

Charlie Starr is a monster guitar player, so beyond "good". I've been playing for 50 years, grew up with the influence of the greats... Hendrix, Clapton, Goudreau, Young, Van Halen, Beck, Gilmour, Haynes, Rossington, Felder, Walsh, Rice, Gill, Allman, Betts, Atkins... on and on.... and Charlie Starr deserves to be on the same stage as any of them. So versatile, so smooth.

[@craigbowling2014]

Charlie ranks high amongst the current line up of band players out there , he’s a front man but first and foremost a guitarists guitarist if that makes any sense ✌️

[@BrothaAustin]

Your favorite bands favorite band

[@wesleywingate2921]

Charlie's "the Sh#t".

[@104luckyaluckyguitar2]

Charlie if you read this…I am retired. I have meet you a couple dozen times and always give you a “Lucky” guitar pick hoping to trade my pick for yours. Anyway, do you have any recommendations on getting better at finger picking? I struggle with this and get frustrated quickly with my fingers refusing to do what I want. Haa. I can play Blackbird and that’s where my finger picking songs ends. It would open up so many new songs for me if I could just get the hang of it. I love this song and would like to play it on my guitar but … it’s finger picking. Haa