All Episodes
Ask Zac — 279 episodes
Richard Bennett's Genius on Steve Earle's “Guitar Town”
My Favorite Seymour Duncan Pickups
Why My Baritone Tele Got a B-Bender
Remembering Jerry Jones: The Guitar Builder Who Changed Nashville
The Danelectro 6-String Bass I Used on the Today Show w/ Brad Paisley | "This Town" Breakdown
The Album That Changed Eric Clapton Forever - J.J. Cale's Naturally
The Wicked Stepchildren of the Telecaster - The 70s Tele Custom & Telecaster Deluxe
What It's Like Playing The Grand Ole Opry
My Frankenstein 12-String & Bass 6 Danelectro Double-Neck
The Phil Kubicki Story - From Fender To Factor Bass
Tracking Brad Paisley's Tackelbox Album & His 2026 European Tour
Why I Don't Like Overdrive Pedals & The 4 That Make The Cut
Standel & The Tragic Genius of Bob Crooks - The Man Who Invented the Boutique Amp
Tales From The Tele Town Concert
Learn to Feed Yourself Musically (Don't Be Spoon-Fed)
I Built My Perfect String Sets For My Telecaster & Baritone With D'Addario
A Look At A 1949 Bigsby Guitar - Rarer Than Rare!
James Pennebaker Interview
The Gibson ES-335 - Their Best Design
Don Rich, Buck Owens & the Telecaster That Vanished
The Holy Grail Telecasters At Gruhn Guitars with Joe Spann
The Octave 12-String Mando-Guitar - The Tool For Jangle Magic! -
Why Even "Clean" Tones Need Some Hair & Grit
50s Guild Aristocrat - A Vintage Sleeper - (It's Not A Tele Vol 1)
Why I Needed a Baritone Telecaster Guitar
Inside the 1962 Fender 6G3 "Brown" Deluxe Amp
Why The Telecaster Bridge Is the Heart & Soul of the Tele
Lou Toomey Interview (Brooks & Dunn, Keith Whitley, Faith Hill)
How I Ended Up Playing on Brad Paisley’s Snow Globe Town (and the Tonight Show!)
Early ’60s Telecasters: What Changed & Who Made Them Famous
Tele Gumbo: String Stretching, Bridge Covers, Book Review & Gig-Ready Gear
The Tour From Hell: My First Time on the Road
Telecaster Bridge Shootout! 3-Saddle vs 6-Saddle on My 1957 Esquire
Those Infamous Fender F-Tuners (1967 – 1981)
Everything You Wanted To Know About Bigsby-Equipped Fender Telecasters
The Truth About Tough Gigs & The Difference Between "Shows" & "Gigs"
Fender’s Best Bang-for-Buck Telecaster Yet
Rosewood Fretboard Telecasters: Tone, Feel & History
Albert Lee’s B-Bender Tricks You Can Steal
3 Gigs, 2 Sessions, and a Lightning Strike — D'Addario XS Strings Still Going
Guitar Nut Width & Why It Matters
How Eric Clapton (and Albert Lee) Got Me Into Country Music – Just One Night
Alnico 2 vs Alnico 5: Telecaster Tone Showdown
Ricky Skaggs’ Telecaster Masterclass on "I’m Tired." - Lesson
How Reggie Young Reshaped Merle Haggard’s Sound with a Strat
The TC Electronic Chorus Pedal Makes a Comeback
Which Pickups Should I Put in My Telecaster?
Reviving My 1981 Martin HD-28 with New Frets, Waverly Tuners, K&K Pickup & More!
Meet Nashville Guitar Great: Matthew Lee
Personalized by Fender: 1969 Telecasters with Factory Neck Inlays!
Behind the Scenes of Brad Paisley’s ‘Lost Paisley’ Telecaster
A Tele-Guy Discovers The PRS DGT SE
A Look At Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker Memoir & His Incredible Musical Legacy
Joe Fick of Kelley's Heroes & The Don Kelley Band
Why Leo Fender Never Acknowledged The Influence of Paul Bigsby
My Favorite Backup Amp - The 1985 Peavey Studio Pro 40
The Modified Broadcaster/Telecaster Blend Control & 2 YT Channels I love
Baxendale Harmony Conversion Guitars
Meet Nashville Tele Slinger - Gabe Tonon
The Fender Broadcaster Story
A Glaser Strat With A B-Bender?
Flat-Wound, Pure Nickel, and Ground-Wound Strings on my Telecaster
A Real Road Worn 1952 Telecaster
The Tim Lerch Interview
The Resurrection of my 1970 Buck Owens "American" Guitar
Vintage Solid State? Lab Series Amps
Tone Snob Confessions With Barry O'Neal of Xact Tone Solutions
Luther Dickinson Interview
A Look at the "Champ Killer" 1954 Wide-Panel Fender Princeton Amp
The Last Glaser Bender Guitar
Playing The American Music Awards
Stuie & Sonny French of The French Family Band
Ricky Skaggs Highways & Heartaches And The Glaser Mandocaster
The Best Speaker For Your Deluxe Reverb
That Famed EVM-12L Sound
Hardtail Stratocaster: The Lowdown
The Vince Gill Interview
Celebrating the Don Kelley Band
Fender's Marvelous Mandocaster - The Vintage Fender Electric Mandolin
The Birth of Light-Gauge Strings
The Most Underrated Electric Guitar String Gauge - 9.5-44
The Story of Cling Foil & the Blue Flower Telecaster
The Impact of The Blues Brothers Movie
Delbert McClinton "Live From Austin" Influential Albums
How The Telecaster Came To Nashville
Tele Pickup Height with JD Simo and Dan Strain
Iconic Riffs by Forgotten R&B Guitar Greats
Tele Tone Tricks
A Conversation With Joe Glaser & Steve Wariner
Baffled? How To Baffle Your Amp & Not get Fired
Albert Lee Talks Emmylou Harris & Her Luxury Liner Album
1950 Broadcaster VS 1953 Telecaster - A Comparison by Nacho Banos
The Story Of The 1970s Buck Owens American Guitar by Harmony
A Telecaster Fanatic Looks at the PRS NF-53
Leo Fender and the Birth of the G&L Broadcaster/ASAT
Top Loader Telecaster History & Comparison with String-Thru
John Leventhal Talks First Solo Album, Rumble Strip
My Direct + Amp Pedalboard Built By XTS
Eldon Shamblin & His Gold 1954 Stratocaster
Danocaster Talks Telecaster Tone
Duke Levine Talks Touring with Bonnie Raitt & the Eternal Tone Hunt
My Pedalboard Gets The Xact Tone Solutions Makeover
The Inspired Story of the Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive
How Did My Stratocaster End Up Playing "Wicked Game" With Chris Isaak?
Stratocaster Pioneers Of The 1950s
To Float, Or Not To Float, Strats The Question
Las Vegas Street Talk
Influential Albums - Guitars Cadillacs Etc, Etc. - Dwight Yoakam & Pete Anderson
Adam Levy - Jazz Guitarist & Sideman to the Stars
Influential Albums - Luxury Liner Emmylou Harris
G-Bender History and the Major Players (Jimmy Olander, Jeff King & Brad Paisley)
Diamond Rio Talk New Members & New Music In 2023
The Dangers of Buying Celebrity-Owned Instruments
I Played & Spoke at a Chet Atkins Event - Here's What Happened
Jeff King - Juggling the Studio & The Road
A Walk Through My Telecaster Collection - 6 Telecasters & Counting - Ask Zac 167
What I Take To The Gig - Ask Zac 166
Repairs & Restoration on my 1967 Bigsby Telecaster - Ask Zac 165
Solving Noise Issues When Using 2 Amps - Ask Zac 164
Fender’s Switch from Nitrocellulose Lacquer to Polyurethane in 1968 – Ask Zac 163
Rick Holmstrom, Broadcaster Blend Wiring, & My Birthday Trip to New Orleans - Ask Zac 162
I Was Given A 1967 Bigsby Fender Telecaster - Ask Zac 162
Western Swing Soloing Hacks - Ask Zac 161
I Have Arthritis, But I Ain't Quittin' - Ask Zac 160
Zac’s Hacks - How to Compensate Your Vintage Tele Saddles - Ask Zac 159
The Fabulous Headstrong Lil' King Amp - Ask Zac 158
Wiring the Tone Pot only to the Telecaster Bridge Pickup - Ask Zac 157
Merle Travis - Musical Giant & Architect of the Solid Body Guitar - Ask Zac 156
Meet Chris Stapleton's Guitarist - Mike Eli LoPinto - Ask Zac 155
Chris Scruggs - Nashville Music Royalty & Torchbearer - Ask Zac 154
Volume Pedals - The History, The Influential Players, and What To Look For When Buying - Ask Zac 153
WAH, TELE, & STRING TALK with JD SIMO - Ask Zac 152 @JDSimoMusic
Finding the Perfect Wah - Ask Zac 151
Gig Stories From Las Vegas - Ask Zac 150 @austinskinner
3 Keys to Success in Music - Ask Zac - 147
The Bob Warford & Clarence White Telecaster - The Second B-Bender Tele - Ask Zac 146
Luke McQueary - Don Kelley’s Last Hero - Ask Zac 145
The Story of James Burton's 1969 Paisley Telecaster - Ask Zac 144
James Burton's 1952 Tele - The Beginning of the Telecaster Craze - Ask Zac 143
The Best $200 Guitar Amp - The Peavey Special 130 - Ask Zac 142
Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum - A Nashville Must- Ask Zac 141
Bernie Leadon - Eagle on a B-Bender - Ask Zac 140
Redd Volkaert - The Telewacker - Ask Zac Player Spotlight - 139
My Tribute to the Desert Rose Band - Ask Zac 138
The History of the Telecaster Thinline - Ask Zac 137
How Leo Fender's Telecaster Bridge Cover Became An Ashtray - Ask Zac 136
The Fender JBL Sound - The True Story of the Premier American Guitar Speaker - Ask Zac 135
How To Easily Locate A Rattling Tube - Ask Zac 134
Don Kelley - Nashville's Greatest Bandleader & Trainer to the Telecaster Titans - Ask Zac 133
Swapping Tele Neck Pickups, Setting Pickup Height & Solder Tips - Ask Zac 132
Fred Carter Jr - Session Man, Mentor to Robbie Robertson, First Telecaster Man in Nashville - AZ 131
Why Vintage Telecaster Pickups Die - Ask Zac 130
A Tour of the Ron Ellis Pickup Workshop - Ask Zac 129
Steve Gibson - The Consummate Nashville Guitar Chameleon - Ask Zac 128
Why I Bought A Brown Box To Protect My Vintage Tube Amps - Ask Zac 127
The Elvis Movie Guitarist - JD Simo - Ask Zac 126
The Incomparable Guitar of Andrew Gold - Ask Zac 125
The Guitars Of Dolly Parton's "Jolene." Featuring Chip Young & Wayne Moss - Ask Zac - 124
The Evolution of my Danocaster, Kubicki, Glaser Franken-Tele - Ask Zac 123
A Tribute to My Musical Mentor - Pat Grogan - Ask Zac 122
Legends of Country Guitar - Two Essential Albums - Ask Zac 121
Junior Barnard - Electric Guitar Pioneer - Ask Zac 120
Stories about my 30-year gigging companion - My Trusty 1981 Martin HD-28 - Ask Zac 119
Branding Your Guitar - Ask Zac 118
The Memphis Guitarist that Influenced Reggie Young, Steve Cropper, and Chips Moman. Ask Zac 117
My 37-Year Journey To Find The Right Pick - Ask Zac 115
How to play the Ask Zac Theme, and the story behind it - Ask Zac 114
Pops Staples - Preaching the Tremolo Gospel - Ask Zac 113
Baxendale Guitar & Mandocello Conversions - Ask Zac 112
LEGO Meets Fender - My Obsessions Colliding - Ask Zac 111
Zac's Hacks - How To Best String Your Vintage Style Telecaster - Ask Zac 110
Danelectro Baritone - VS - Fender Squier Bass VI - Which is best for you? - Ask Zac 109
The Importance of Amp Placement - Ask Zac 108
Duane Allman - The Telecaster & Fuzz Years - Ask Zac 107
My New Years Gig Story - Ask Zac 106
TOP 5 Episodes of 2021 - Ask Zac 105
A Vintage Amp Snob Goes Direct - Ask Zac 104
Robbie Robertson - Tele-Man of The Band - Ask Zac 103
How Small Amps Got Big - Ask Zac 102
Hot-Rodding The Brown Princeton - Ask Zac 101
'62 Princeton Amp - Chris Stapleton Edition - Ask Zac 100
Al Anderson - NRBQ's Big Man of the Telecaster - Ask Zac 99
The 1959 Fender Super Amp - Top Of The Heap Of The Mid-Sized Tweeds - Ask Zac 98
Giggin' On Tulsa Time - Ask Zac 97
The History of Jerry Jones Guitars - Ask Zac 95
How To Prepare For A Gig - Ask Zac 94
Jimmy Bryant - The First Hero Of The Telecaster - Ask Zac 93
How & Why I started my Guitar Related "Ask Zac" Channel using 2 iPhones and a lapel mic - Ask Zac 92
Q & A - Princetons, Tele Body Thickness, and Guthrie Trapp's influence - Ask Zac 91
1960 Deluxe VS 1959 Harvard - A Fender Tweed Comparison - Ask Zac 90
How Grady Martin's 1961 Fuzz Solo birthed Keith Richard's "Satisfaction" in 1965 - Ask Zac 89
1957 VS 1967 Vintage Telecaster Comparison - Ask Zac 88 - Leo Fender VS CBS Fender
Learning To Love Fuzz & Electric Guitar Capo Tips - Ask Zac 87
7 things I stole from John Leventhal - Ask Zac 86
Gigging in Downtown Nashville - Ask Zac 85
10 Legendary Telecaster Licks - Ask Zac 84
An Ask Zac B-Bender Lesson - AZ 83
FRANK RECKARD of Emmylou's Hot Band - Ask Zac 82
Joe Glaser installs a B-Bender in my Paisley Tele - Ask Zac 81
Glaser's New Convertible B/G-Bender and Updated Nashville 3-pickup wiring - Ask Zac 80
Fender VS Vox - Ask Zac 79
Fender '68 Custom Vibro Champ Reverb - Ask Zac 78
Fred Newell, Nashville Now, and the TNN Telecaster - Ask Zac 77
My Tales from the 2010 Nashville Flood - Ask Zac 76
The Influence of John Jorgenson - Ask Zac 75
Glaser Bender Guitars, the first Super-Telecasters and the birth of the Nashville Tele - Ask Zac 74
Roy Buchanan - Tele Sorcerer - Ask Zac 73
Roy Nichols - No Stranger to a Tele - Ask Zac 72
Buck Owens & Don Rich - Telecaster Troubadours - Ask Zac 71
The Revenge of the Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Blonde - Ask Zac 70
The Greatest Vox Amp You Haven't Heard Of - Ask Zac 69
All-About the Vintage MXR Script Logo Dyna Comp - Ask Zac 68
Making Chord Inversions Fun - Ask Zac 67
Boss DM-2, DD-2, & DM-3 - Boss Delays of the 1980s - Ask Zac 66
Vince Gill - Telecaster Songbird - Ask Zac 65
Why A Jazzmaster? Ask Zac 64
Roots Electric Rhythm Guitar - Ask Zac 63
Ray Flacke - Brit Telecaster Strangler - Ask Zac 62
A RUT BUSTING LESSON FOR 2021 - Ask Zac 61
Jesse Ed Davis - Unsung Hero of the Telecaster - Ask Zac 60
A Very Special "Ask Zac" Christmas - Brad Paisley, Dr. Z, and Me - Ask Zac 59
1957 Fender Esquire RESTORATION - Ask Zac 58
The True Story of my 1957 Fender Esquire - Ask Zac 57
Danny Gatton Tribute - Ask Zac 56
Zac's Hacks - Easy Telecaster Setup - Ask Zac 55
The Electric Rhythm Styles of James Burton, Albert Lee & Brad Paisley - Ask Zac 54
Albert Lee - The Father of Modern Tele Players - Ask Zac 53
Telecaster Bridge Pickups 1950-69 - How pickups affect tone - UPDATED/CORRECTED - Ask Zac 52
Ricky Skaggs - Reluctant Tele-Master - Ask Zac 51
My Top 5 Guitar Books - Ask Zac 50
Is Vintage All-That? - Ask Zac 49
How Wood Affects Tone - Ask Zac 48
Brent Mason Telecaster - Ask Zac 47
Relics. The Real Story - Ask Zac 46
Gigging 6 Days a Week? - Ask Zac 45
How Hardware Affects Tone - Ask Zac 44
My 1992 Pedalboard ASK ZAC 43
The Klon and the Birth of Boutique - ASK ZAC 42
So You Wanna Be A Guitar Tech - ASK ZAC 41
The JV Telecaster, Fender Japan & John Jorgenson - ASK ZAC - 40
Why Play A Les Paul? ASK ZAC 39
Tone Master Deluxe Reverb VS 1967 Deluxe Reverb - ASK ZAC 38
Is Chorus "Cool" again? ASK ZAC EP 37
Why We Play Guitar - ASK ZAC EP 36
Pete Anderson Telecaster Trendsetter - ASK ZAC EP 35
5 Tips for Better Guitar Solos - ASK ZAC EP 34
Why The Telecaster Is The Best Electric Guitar - ASK ZAC EP 33
Inside Nashville's Favorite - ASK ZAC EP 32
The Best Playing Advice I Was Given - ASK ZAC EP 31
Your Heroes Gear Might Not Be Right For You - ASK ZAC EP 30
What Are Strats For? A Tele Player's Musings On The Strat - ASK ZAC EP 29
How you can get the most from a Grab & Go - Fly Pedalboard - ASK ZAC - 28
How Saying "YES" Changed My Life - ASK ZAC EP 27
Tips on playing with Pick and Fingers ASK ZAC EP - 26
Why Guitarists Should Play Mandolin - ASK ZAC EP 25
10 Albums That Changed Me - ASK ZAC EP 24
Tremolo Before Overdrive? and the Pops Staples "Shake" - ASK ZAC EP 23
Deluxe Reverb VS Harvard + Viewer Mailbag for April - ASK ZAC EP 22
Cornell Dupree - Legend of R&B Guitar - ASK ZAC 21
What's The Deal With Pure Nickel Strings? - ASK ZAC EP-20
Steve Cropper and the Fender Harvard Amp ASK ZAC EP 19
The Maple Cap Neck Telecaster - The Last of the Affordable Vintage Tele's? - ASK ZAC 18
Why The Fender Deluxe Reverb Is The Best Guitar Amp Ever - ASK ZAC EP 17
The Brad Paisley La Brea Telecaster Pickup Set - ASK ZAC EP-16
B-Benders - Missing History of the Evans Pullstring - ASK ZAC 15
Ask Zac Intro music breakdown and James Burton's "Ooh Las Vegas" lick - ASK ZAC EP - 14
Why You Need a Fender/Squier Bass VI - ASK ZAC - EP 13
The Boss VB-2 Vibrato - One Of The Greatest Boss Pedals EVER - ASK ZAC - EP 12
The Mighty Mostortion - A Nashville & L.A. Session FAVE - ASK ZAC EP 11
My Frankenstein Telecaster & Why You Need One Too- ASK ZAC EP 10
A typical day as Brad Paisley's Guitar Tech - ASK ZAC EP 9
All About The Nobels ODR-1 - ASK ZAC EP 8
Bobby Womack R&B Telecaster Master - ASK ZAC EP 7
James Burton - Country/Rock Telecaster King - ASK ZAC EP 6
Telecaster Neck Pickups and Practice Tips - ASK ZAC EP 5
Tips & Tricks for Soundhole Pickups - ASK ZAC EP 4
Danocaster (Ron Ellis Equipped) Blackguard Demo - ASK ZAC 3
Remembering Reggie Young - ASK ZAC EP 2
Steuart Smith of the Eagles - ASK ZAC EP 1