Premier Guitar dropped in to Guthrie Trapp’s Nashville studio between sessions and checked out Trapp’s no-nonsense rig, which includes blackface amps, a vintage 335 and an axe carved out of wood from a compost pile.
Although Trapp owns other guitars, he basically gets it all done with two very different axes. His No. 1 is his Floyd Cassista T-style with an ancient redwood body and a maple neck.
When Trapp wants to change it up he goes with his stock 1969 Gibson ES-335 w/ trapeze tailpiece. Both guitars are strung with D’Addario NYXL .010–.046 strings.
Trapp is a total blackface player. Most of his work is done with two '60s combos—shown here is his 1966 Fender Deluxe Reverb loaded with a Reverend All-Tone speaker.
And his other classic Fender combo is a 1965 Fender Vibrolux Reverb that features the original speakers.
His modest day-to-day board starts with a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner. From there the signal hits his Xotic Effects RC Booster, vintage Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive, XTS Winford Drive, J. Rockett Audio Designs Guthrie Trapp Overdrive, Strymon Flint Tremolo/Reverb, Boss DD-5 Digital Delay (which is on the reverse setting) and a Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo. Everything lives on a Pedaltrain Jr. board and is powered by a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus.
John Bohlinger is a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist best known for leading the band on NBC's Nashville Star, serving as music director for the CMT Awards and specials on PBS and GAC, and of course for his appearances in PG Rig Rundown, Review Demo, Axes & Artifacts, and What Bohlinger Plays videos.
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