Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The FT-79 was produced by the Epiphone company starting in 1942. After Gibson bought Epiphone in 1957, the Texan was produced in Kalamazoo, Michigan until 1970. There have been numerous reissues of the Texan since their primary production period in the 1960s. [1] The original, New York made Epiphone FT-79 is quite a different guitar.
This is a List of Epiphone players (musicians) who have made notable use of Epiphone Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings.Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significant – that is, they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Epiphone use, or the particular ...
Epiphone SG Special 1961 50th Anniversary (used at the 2012 Coachella Festival with At the Drive-In) Tokai SG-60; Gibson SG Jr - Ward has used two of these guitars—a green SG with a white pearl pickguard and a sticker of the Texan flag, [7] and a white version with a tortoise pickguard and a sticker of the Welsh flag. [8]
Epiphone (/ ˌ ɛ. p ə. f oʊ n /) is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908.
It is built by the Epiphone Guitar Company. The Marcus Henderson Signature Model has several features that are built to increase tonal capabilities by including a "kill" button to open the pickup circuit, creating a staccato or choppy sound depending on how fast you press it, as well as a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo system.
Raymond Ronald Jones (born 25 April 1939), [1] better-known as Wizz Jones, is an English acoustic guitarist, and singer-songwriter.He was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England and has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present.
Leon Rhodes (March 10, 1932 – December 9, 2017) was an American country music musician. A guitarist, he primarily played behind Ernest Tubb as part of the Texas Troubadours and later was a house band member for the television programs Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw.
Best Blues Guitarist, W. C. Handy Award, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004.Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Producer, 2004. Traditional Blues Male Artist, 2010. Acousitic Blues Album of the Year, 2016, "The Acoustic Blues & Roots of Duke Robillard."