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The Food Stamps have been cooking onstage behind the redheaded songwriter pretty much since he left Appalachia and began touring as a full unit. These loyal road dogs have worn the rubber off the tires touring with Mr. Childers. First, they were strictly a live band enlisted to recreate and recharge the material from his first three studio albums Bottles and Bibles (2011), Purgatory (2017), and Country Squire (2019). But with the last two studio records—the triple-album, gospel-country opus Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? and last year’s classic-meets-contemporary Rustin' in the Rain—the Food Stamps went from being his road-warrior comrades to eating big time alongside their leader onstage and in the studio.

During Childers’ headlining arena run and before his second sold-out night at the Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville, the Food Stamps’ CJ Cain (acoustic/electric guitar/mandolin), Jesse Wells (electric guitar/mandola/banjo/baritone/fiddle), James Barker (guitar/pedal-steel), and Craig Burletic (electric bass/double bass) invited PG’s Perry Bean inside their “living room” stage set. When we last chatted with them in 2019, the boys were burning through the small-club circuit with many of the same tone tools still in their rig today, but as venues grow and tours extend, gear needs change and the arsenal capacity increases. In this hour-long Rundown, we cover all their fresh friends, old standbys, and everything else these four buckaroos require to make music that matters.

Thumbnail photo by Emma Delevante: https://www.instagram.com/emmadelevante/

Fender Vintera II '60s Stratocaster: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k0YVB0

Amplified Nation Overdrive Reverb 50-watt Tube Head: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKYaV1

Dunlop EP103 Echoplex Delay Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LX7gb0

Keeley Katana Mini Clean Boost Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DK7BXb

JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 Compressor Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bayxMk

Peterson Strobostomp: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQLdLj

Strymon El Capistan: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k0MG20

L.R. Baggs Venue DI: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy70m6

Grace Design ALiX Acoustic Instrument Preamp: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQYR6D

Morley ABC Pro 3-button Switcher/Combiner Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Py7B3R

Fender Custom Shop Time Machine '68 Thinline Telecaster: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5goK91

Fender Stories Collection Eric Johnson 1954 "Virginia" Stratocaster: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jrYVkM

Gretsch G6128T-GH George Harrison Duo Jet: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKYaVQ

Danelectro 59X12 12-string Electric Guitar: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/an7PaY

Fender '64 Princeton Reverb 1x10": https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Gm7Ez2

Grace Designs Felix preamp: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VmPOEE

L.R. Baggs acoustiseries Reverb: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1rJ2qz

L.R. Baggs Para acoustic DI: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Vm7gqj

Universal Audio UAFX Golden Reverberator Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1rD3xg

TC Electronic PolyTune: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k0oEQV

MXR Phase 90 script: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/g1YJZX

Strymon Flint: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QyAKk9

Wampler Tumnus: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKggxr

Radial Engineering Headlight: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oqYVEW

Gibson Custom 1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue Electric Guitar: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0ZV2LN

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