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Brownie is the nickname for a Fender Stratocaster that was used extensively by Eric Clapton during the early 1970s, most notably with Derek and the Dominos on their 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
Eric Clapton played a range of different Fender and Gibson models while playing in The Yardbirds and Cream.In 1970, for his landmark Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs with Derek and the Dominos, Clapton started using a sunburst 1956 Stratocaster which he later nicknamed Brownie that he had bought in May 1967 while in Cream. [2]
Raitt's principal touring guitar is a customized Fender Stratocaster that she nicknamed Brownie. This became the basis for a signature model in 1996. Raitt was the first female musician to receive a signature Fender line. My brown Strat—the body is a '65 and the neck is from some time after that.
His first Stratocaster, nicknamed "Brownie" because of its sunburst brown finish, was used on his albums Eric Clapton and Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The same year, Clapton found the Sho-Bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee. He bought six 1950s Fender Stratocasters for two or three hundred US dollars each (roughly US$1,500-2,300 ...
Brownie (guitar), a Fender Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton in the 1970s; Brownie, a 1905 bronze by Louis Amateis at the Houston Zoo, Texas, US; Brownies, a 2004 Indonesian film by Hanung Bramantyo; Brownies, Indian American web comic; The Brownies, a series of publications by Palmer Cox, 1879 onwards
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) [1] was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
The 0001 Strat – This Fender Stratocaster electric guitar was owned by David Gilmour.The model was used as a spare and for slide guitar in subsequent years. In 2019, the 0001 Strat was sold at auction for $1,815,000, setting a new world auction record for a Stratocaster.
This guitar model featured an alder body, a maple neck featuring a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets. There were also Gold and Walnut Elite variants with gold hardware, the latter sporting an American walnut body and an ebony fingerboard. The Freeflyte tremolo system differed significantly from previous Stratocaster tremolo designs.