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"The best advice I can give someone who is looking for a producer, guitarist, writer or anyone to collaborate with is; listen to their product. If they're good, there should be a common thread no matter what type of music it is."
Nunzio Signore has been a session guitarist and touring musician for a while. Whether it's playing blues in Bo Diddley's band or laying down Curtis Mayfield-esque riffs on recordings by such artists as Brian McKnight and Destiny's Child, it's all just about "making the song feel good".
The Philadelphia born guitarist/producer grew up listening to a wide array of music; "Pop radio was different. You could listen to one station all day and hear every genre of music; Zeppelin, Sly Stone, Bread and Cheap Trick would all come on right after another. It was purely about great songs."
Recent projects include artists such as Jake Stigers and the Velvet Roots, Katie Neal, Ann Holly, Larry Cooley and Julia Othmer.
"A lot of people start out by coming in to write two or three songs, things start to click, they decide they want to track them and before you know it we're making a whole record."
He's also putting the finishing touches to an album with his own band All the Big Wigs blending sounds diversely gathered from influences like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jellyfish, Earth, Wind and Fire and Bread.
"I spend so much time working on other people's tracks that my own stuff always ends up on the back burner. Eventually I got tired of people asking me when it was going to be done so Pete Williamson and I got together and mixed a song every Tuesday until it was finished."
Nunzio regularly works out of his own recording studio, The Crib, in Brooklyn, and travels the world playing guitar. You can learn more at www.nunziosignore.com
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