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In Part One of this exclusive interview, renowned session guitarist Larry Carlton talks with Guitar Shop TV about how his early love of The Beatles and jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery influenced his style. He also explains why growing up listening to steel guitar players led to his signature use of volume pedals to mimic that sound, as well as how he discovered B.B. King at age 16 in his grandmother's record collection. Larry Carlton's melodic 'smooth jazz' style made him one of the most in-demand session players in LA during the 1970s and early 1980s. He recorded an average of 500 sessions a year with everyone from Steely Dan and Billy Joel to Michael Jackson and Barbara Streisand and has won four Grammy Awards. His guitar work on Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" from their 1976 LP The Royal Scam was ranked as the third best guitar solo on record by Rolling Stone.
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