"I was working in Austin on Los Lonely Boys "Heaven" at the time," recalls Porter," and I'd always loved Collings guitars. I had some Brazilian rosewood I'd had for years, so I took it to Collings and asked if they'd make me an OM21 with rosewood back, sides, and fingerboard -- all of which they didn't normally do. He let the wood sit on his desk for a year to see if it might bend, then he built it for me. It's a lovely, lovely guitar."
GALLERY: John Porter's Guitar Collection
Porter muses over the highlights of his vast collection used on records by everyone from B.B. King to Eric Clapton to the Smiths.
Rick Gould