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Exclusive: Manny Charlton (Nazareth) guitar rig rundown

16. August 2019: Something from Nothing CD + DVD available from Amazon

Manny Charlton (Nazareth) knows a thing or two about playing the guitar. He has done so for over 60 years. Incredibly, nobody has gotten around to interview him about his guitars before - until now. The Manny Charlton guitar rig interview is exclusively available in the new Fluffy Jackets' limited-edition Digipack (DVD+CD) release Something from Nothing.

Producer Manny Charlton (Nazareth) talks about the guitars used to record the new Fluffy Jackets album "Something from Nothing" (2019). The film is part of the making-of documentary available as a CD+DVD Digipack. Image courtesy of The Fluffy Jackets.

"I have more, but this is plenty" says Manny Charlton, sitting in front of his guitars at his home studio in Andalucía, Spain.
"I am a guitarist, so I like to have a few different guitars for different tonalities".


Manny Charlton's guitar interview is included in the new Fluffy Jackets' DVD documentary / CD album release called "Something from Nothing", released in August 2019 (available via Cargo Records).

"This guitar has a lovely balanced tone and is easy to play", comments Manny Charlton about a US-made Taylor acoustic guitar. "It is not like my Martin guitar, which is a lot harder to play. You see; what happens if you don't play a lot, you lose muscles in your hand which is very important for guitarists. And I don't play as much; not like in the days with Nazareth when I was playing six nights a week. Now I tend to spend more time in the studio which is a different game to playing live every night".

Another guitar he has made himself: "When I was in Scotland, a wonderful guy called Bob Laidlaw whom I used to work with on the dockyard was starting to make guitars. And I said; yeah, I don't do much now, so I joined him to make a couple of guitars. His guitars were close to works of art, but I am not patient; I just flung them together. I just wanted to hear what it sounded like, you know? And this guitar just ended up sounding amazing. It has Sperzels locking tuners, a flat maple top, one Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickup which is modelled after Billy Gibbons' 1959 Burst."


"This here is a Danelectro" Manny says, pulling out yet another guitar; "I saw Jimmy Page playing one, and I thought 'if it is good enough for him, it is good enough for me'. I used it on a solo recently and it sounded perfect. It has a Variatone switch to get different tonalities out of the guitar".


The interview with Manny Charlton was recorded at his home studio in Spain and showcases several other instruments in his arsenal, including different Gibson and Fender guitars. The footage was taken during the recent Fluffy Jackets recording sessions and forms part of the documentary which is available together with their new album called Something from Nothing which is produced by Manny Charlton.

Guitarists and Nazareth-fans will also be interested to see Manny Charlton's guitar effect pedals that he has used throughout the years to create Nazareth records and his solo albums. This "pedal show" is also available as bonus material in the documentary, together with a featurette about his 1975 Gibson Flying V guitar used to record the Expect No Mercy (Nazareth) album from 1977.

The Fluffy Jackets feat. Manny Charlton - Something from Nothing

The nine new tracks on Something from Nothing are “all killer, no filler”, as the saying goes. Five originals and four covers make up this album, showcasing a tribute to Glen Campbell’s “Better Place” (featuring Alison Cooper) and a brand new single “Give me Something”. The accompanying documentary highlights The Fluffy Jackets history along with exclusive interviews, live performances and four new music videos. Something from Nothing is available as a limited-edition Digipack (CD & DVD release) via Cargo Records. The album will also be available on all digital outlets including iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music and Amazon.

The track listing is as follows:

Disc 1: The Album (CD):

  1. The Fluffy Jackets Something From Nothing album coverBetter place (duet with Alison Cooper)
  2. Give me something
  3. Everything must change
  4. John the revelator
  5. Welcome to the shoot-them-up
  6. Tongues wag
  7. Wrong before
  8. Heaven only knows
  9. 44 blues

Disc 2: The Documentary (DVD):

  1. “Something from Nothing” movie trailer
  2. The start of The Fluffy Jackets
  3. Hey Porter (music video)
  4. The first releases: “2007 EP” & “Fighting Demons”
  5. Creating “Something from Nothing” at Madmento Studio, Spain.
  6. Everything must change (music video: Alternate Radio Edit)
  7. Manny’s Dobro used on 'Vicky' & 'Give me Something'
  8. Give me something (music video: Alternate Radio Edit)
  9. The left of the rack: studio equipment
  10. Manny Charlton’s guitars
  11. Manny’s pedal show
  12. Helge’s guitars
  13. Gibson Flying V featurette
  14. Helge’s pedals and amplifiers
  15. Manny Charlton (Nazareth) interview, pt. 1
  16. Manny Charlton (Nazareth) interview, pt. 2
  17. Neil Murray (Whitesnake, Snakecharmer) interview
  18. Manny & ‘The Big 3’ (Les Paul, Stratocaster & Telecaster guitars)
  19. Let’s do it again (outtakes)
  20. Better Place: Credits (music video feat. Alison Cooper)

Digital Release with Bonus tracks

The iTunes release include two bonus tracks: a cover of Johnny Cash's "Hey Porter" and a radio edit of "Everything Must Change".

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The Fluffy Jackets first appeared on the London scene with a self-titled EP in 2007, but it was not until 2014 that they made a dent in the charts with the debut album «Fighting Demons». Recorded at the legendary Sun Studio by multiple Grammy Award winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang, the outing won the Blues Hour’s «Best Studio Album of the Year» award and also earned the band their first international hit in «Why Don’t You Smile». The slow blues was made particularly memorable for featuring a sizzling guitar solo from Nazareth guitar legend Manny Charlton, backed up by bassist Neil Murray (Whitesnake) and Jerry Lee Lewis‘ drummer Rob Hall (The Killer Band). The band has just completed the anticipated follow-up. Released by Cargo Records UK, “Something from Nothing” will be available as a limited Digipack consisting of a nine track CD album and a two-hour DVD documentary film.

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