“With Taylor, there was a lot of, ‘Give us the kitchen sink – try this, try that!’” He’s a go-to guitarist for Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Jack Antonoff – but for Mikey Freedom Hart, it all started with a kid playing Eruption at church camp

Mikey Freedom Hart.

Mikey Freedom Hart has been a mainstay on Taylor Swift’s records since 2019’s Lover, and he recently played pedal steel on Sabrina Carpenter’s Slim Pickins. He’s a multi-instrumentalist – but it’s the guitar he loves most.

“I’ve always had the conviction that if I pick an instrument up, I’ll really spend time on it,” he says. “The reason someone sticks with the guitar is that there’s so much you can do with it; so many ways to say what you’re trying to say.”