"Porter actually owns three different versions of this guitar, casually known to guitarists as the Jimmy Reed guitar."I have this Silvertone one, he explains, then also a Kay and an Orpheum. They are all the same, except my other two are blonde. They have necks like a baseball bat and this one has the pickguard with the coat of arms." Porter used this guitar on Taj Mahal's " Senor Blues."
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