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He was the most visible player of the Tele in the late '50s, appearing on television with Ricky Nelson almost every week on the Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. [15] His most famous guitar is the Paisley Red Tele, which he first used while performing with Elvis Presley. [16] He has also played with Gram Parsons and Merle Haggard. As a long-time ...
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Leroy "Roy" Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, [1] Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career [2] and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart.
Redd Volkaert (born 1958) is a Canadian guitarist and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in the modern era and is "among the country’s top Telecaster guitar slingers” [1] particularly in the genres of western swing and honky tonk.
Lee is also referred to as "Mr. Telecaster". [9] A long-time Telecaster player, Lee wrote a foreword to A.R. Duchossoir's book detailing the history of the instrument. Lee's song "Country Boy" helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players, and was later to become a hit for multi-instrumentalist Ricky Skaggs.
Regarding Jeff Buckley, He was definitely a tele player (see here. As for him being a "highly regarded virtuoso performer" I believe he is, and if you follow these links, there is some evidence (there would be more, but i assembled this post in a hurry. His version of hallelujah was named rolling stones #259th greatest song of all time
Kirchen was named "The Titan of The Telecaster" by Guitar Player magazine [1] for his musical prowess on the Fender Telecaster guitar. He played a 1959 model with a maple fretboard and sunburst finish that he calls the "coal burner", acquired in 1967 when he exchanged his Gibson SG with a stranger on a bus. [ 5 ]
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