Butch Walker [2022]

<p>When you produce acts like Taylor Swift,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-fall-out-boy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fall Out Boy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/nicole-row" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Panic at the Disco</a>, Weezer,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/green-day" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Green Day</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-pinks-justin-derrico-and-eva-gardner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pink</a>, Rayland Baxter,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-keith-urban" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keith Urban</a>, and Harry Connick Jr., it’s hard to find time for your own music. Yet in 2022, Butch Walker managed to release his 10th album,&nbsp;<em>Butch Walker as … Glenn</em>—a surprising tribute to the ’70s piano-rock balladeers that were among the rulers of FM radio in his youth. Nonetheless, that didn’t stop him from bringing a fleet of cool Fender and Gibson guitars, and a hemi of an amp, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/two-rock-bloomfield-drive-review" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Two-Rock Bloomfield Drive</a>, on his recent It’s About Damn Tour tour.</p><p>For Walker, playing those guitars is something of a comeback celebration. In 2007, the house he was renting in Malibu from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-red-hot-chili-peppers-flea" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flea</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-red-hot-chili-peppers-2017" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a>&nbsp;caught fire and the Rome, Georgia, native lost the collection of classic axes he’d spent a lifetime accumulating, as well as the masters to every song of his own that he’d recorded. As Walker explains in the Rundown, it was a hard lesson about keeping up with insurance and