Lockdown Licks no. 91
“Hello” by Lionel Richie.
Guitar Solo played on a Telecaster using the neck pick up volume on 7, tone on 5, NUX amp set on clean channel with reverb on 4. The guitar solo on the original was played by session guitarist Louie Shelton. It is beautifully melodic and deceptively difficult, featuring jazz phrasing and octave apart pairs of notes played together on different parts of the neck. Great job Louie! 
Hello” is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from his second solo album Can’t Slow Down (1983), the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart (for two weeks), the R&B chart (for three weeks),and the adult contemporary chart (for six weeks). The song also went to number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks.