SAMUEL L. JACKSON STRUMS HIS OWN GUITAR

Samuel L. Jackson did all his own guitar playing as a Delta bluesman who tries to save Christina Ricci’s sexual soul in Black Snake Moan. Jackson began his guitar lessons with David Letterman band guitarist Felicia Collins who he met backstage at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in New York, and then continued his studies while fighting snakes on a plane with their prop master.

Jackson then made his way down to the Mississippi Delta where he fine tuned his own style of picking and strumming which he explains while on location in Memphis, Tennessee.

“I came down and met Scott and we did this little Delta tour one day and went to several places. And I actually got to sit down and play with big Jake Johnson and I played with Cedric. It was just bizarre that I had this knowledge. I played music when I was younger so I could hear things. Scott says I could hear where the actual notes are on the guitar so when he’s trying to teach me something I always stop him because I have to find my own way of figuring out how to play it. It turns out to be a lot simpler but efficient for me so I’m kind of hooked on the guitar now.”

Jackson now owns several electric guitars including a made to order Gibson he received in an Academy Award goodie bag and expects his Grammy nomination next year for several songs he performed on the Black Snake Moan soundtrack.