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GALLERY: Guitar of The Month 2010

A fresh look at the 12 guitars featured in PG''s monthly Guitar of the Month column in 2010.

"This guitar has an unusually rich and significant musical history. You heard it on Hank Williamsу рIуm So Lonesome I Could Cry,с рLovesick Blues,с and рCold, Cold Heart.с It was used to record рBlue Eyes Crying in the Rain,с one of Chet Atkinsу earliest recordings for Bullet Records. And it was featured all over Patsy Clineуs debut album, Patsy Cline. It even toured the Pacific with Frank Tennilleяyes, that Tennilleуs fatherяand Bob Crosbyуs band during WWII. The battered and bruised guitar showcased here is a 1938 Gibson L-5 used extensively by Nashville session and radio guitarist Jack Shook. Shookуs L-5 has a carved spruce top complete with bound f-holes, carved figured-maple back and sides, a blonde finish, and multi-ply binding. The guitar features a figured maple neckяebony necks were also availableяthatуs matched with a bound ebony fretboard. It has an adjustable ebony bridge and a gold-plated tailpiece with an engraved silver insert that was new to the model in 1937. The multi-bound blackface headstock sports a pearl flowerpot inlay and Grover Imperial tuners. The guitar was originally equipped with a raised multi-bound pickguard, but that became a casualty from years of radio gigs, studio sessions, and worldwide traveling."

Gibson partners with Warren Haynes to release the Warren Haynes Les Paul Standard, featuring P-90 DC pickups and a 15 dB boost for modern functionality in a traditional 50s-era Les Paul design.

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An overdrive and mangled fuzz that’s a wolf in a maniacal, rabid wolf’s clothing.

Invites new compositional approaches to riffs and solos. Gray Channel distortion is versatile and satisfying. Unpredictable.

Unpredictable. Footswitches for distortion and fuzz are quite close.

$199

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Fuzz can be savored in so many ways. It can be smooth. It can be an agent of chaos. But it can also be a trap. In service of mayhem, it can be a mere noise crutch. Smooth, classy, “tasty” fuzz, meanwhile, can lead to dull solos crafted as Olympian demonstrations of sustain. To touch the soulful, rowdy essence of fuzz, it’s good to find one that never lets you get quite comfortable. The EarthQuaker Devices Gary, a two-headed distortion/overdrive and rabid, envelope-controlled square-wave fuzz designed with IDLES’ Lee Kiernan, is a gain device in this vein.

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Blackberry Smoke will embark on a co-headline tour with Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs. Lead singer Charlie Starr shares, “What could be better than summertime rock and roll shows with Blackberry Smoke and the one and only Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs?”

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