National Fingerstyle Champion Performs “Superstition”
Here is Pete Huttlinger playing live his impressive rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. Pete is a great guitar player, in 2000 He won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. This video has been recorded after he recovered from a major stroke in 2010 and a massive heart failure in 2011. This other video tells more about the “personal story of struggles I’ve faced and worked through or learned to accept as they were”, as he wrote on his youtube channel.
Some additional information taken from Wikipedia:
“By the age of 12, Huttlinger had begun music lessons and by 14 he had settled on the guitar. Soon after he graduated from high school, a relative left him a small inheritance. He decided to use this windfall to study at Berklee College of Music. It was there that Huttlinger found he had a knack for music theory and harmony.[citation needed]
During the early ‘90’s, John Denver’s tour manager and producer Kris O’Connor heard Huttlinger on another project and recommended him for Denver’s band. Huttlinger toured, recorded and performed on television with Denver from 1994 until the singer’s death in 1997.
Huttlinger has performed on numerous Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated projects. He has also been nominated for an Emmy for music he both composed and performed for a PBS special. His performances have been used in several national TV series, including the PBS Nature special “Let This Be A Voice.” He created the theme song for ESPN’s Flyfishing America, a program on which he has made guest appearances.
As a recording artist Huttlinger has released numerous albums and received wide-acceptance ranging from his critically acclaimed Naked Pop to Things Are Looking Up. In 2009 (on Instar Records) Huttlinger released Fingerpicking Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder. His most current release (2013) “McGuire’s Landing” is a CD plus a short story that was written by Huttlinger.
In 2007, Huttlinger made his debut at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. He was invited back in 2008 and made his first appearance there as a solo artist. He is scheduled to perform again at Carnegie Hall on January 9, 2010.
In 2004 and 2007, he was invited to participate in both of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festivals. Huttlinger also makes appearances as a side-man. He toured with John Denver for many years and appears with Country/Pop superstar LeAnn Rimes, including the BBC Television’s “Live From Abbey Road,” a series taped at the famous London studios, and ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.”
In November 2010 Huttlinger suffered a near fatal stroke. He was paralyzed on his right side and could not speak. Exerting enormous effort, he slowly pushed back the paralysis and was even playing guitar again when he was devastated by end-stage heart failure, the result of a cardiac abnormality that had plagued him since childhood. So serious was the affliction that he had to be air-lifted from Vanderbilt Hospital, near his home in Nashville, to Texas Heart Institute in Houston, where he was outfitted with a heart pump known as a VAD (Ventricular Assist Device) and spent the next four months in the hospital recovering.
In 2013 he released the long-awaited McGuire’s Landing Project during a house concert on his birthday in Baltimore, Maryland.
He is a regularly featured performer with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and has appeared with a number of other symphonies.
Huttlinger lives in Nashville. He is married to Erin Morris-Huttlinger.“
Here are also two more video recorded in the same live session:
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Eleanor Rigby” http://youtu.be/g0ySk3IxzYQ
and
“I got Rythm” http://youtu.be/IICuQ0Th404
By Miche Archetto
Author: Robert Harris
