{"id":6547,"date":"2016-01-16T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2016-01-16T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:26:03","slug":"pete-huttlinger-guitarist-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/pete-huttlinger-guitarist-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Huttlinger &#8211; Guitarist Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pete Huttlinger has died at the age of 54, after suffering a stroke.<\/h1>\n<h2>A phenomenal arranger, composer, and performer of fingerstyle guitar music.<\/h2>\n<h3>Huttlinger\u2019s precision playing made the most challenging pieces appear easy as pie, even though the degree of difficulty was anything but.<\/h3>\n<p>Here is his signature arrangement of Stevie Wonder\u2019s &#8220;Superstition&#8221;, with the original story of how he came to perform it. There was once a very clean video of Pete in a TV interview telling the same story before playing the tune, but it is no longer on Youtube. So this one will have to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/17dtwjr5R6E\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Born in Washington, D.C. in June, 1961.\u00a0Pete Huttlinger was a 1984 graduate of Berklee School of Music, in Boston. He toured with John Denver and has performed with and for many other A List recording and touring artists. He also won the 2000 National Fingerstyle Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Steely Dan&#8217;s &#8220;Josie&#8221; ala one-man-band Pete Huttlinger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gU6LwBXyhDc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Born with congenital heart problems, Huttlinger had a massive stroke in 2010 and heart failure some months later. But after a long and arduous recovery, including a battery powered pump to keep his heart going, he regained the ability to play the guitar. His final performance was in Atlanta, on January 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He released the album <em>Parnassus<\/em> in 2015 in collaboration with Mollie Weaver. And his 2013 album <em>McGuire\u2019s Landing<\/em> was critically acclaimed. 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