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Rig Rundown: Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr and Paul Jackson [2023]

The modern Southern rockers recently played Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, and guitarists Charlie Starr and Paul Jackson displayed a bevy of gear every bit as hardworking as these road dogs.

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The covers to these PAF humbuckers had never been removed until this guitar was evaluated for sale.

A see-through cherry factory-finish 1960 Gibson Les Paul Custom? You bet your meatballs!

Ted McCarty, the man most responsible for the creation of the Gibson Les Paul and the president of the company during its golden era, never spared his criticism of the competition at Fender. He sniped to guitar writer Tony Bacon that Fender didn’t even own a carving machine, adding, “they joined their neck with a plate in the back of the guitar!” In another interview, he told author Tom Wheeler, “It didn’t take a great deal of skill to build a plank guitar”—an insult that, for some, still carries a barb all these decades later.

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You could WIN an Epiphone Matt Heafy Les Paul™ Custom Origins! This Giveaway ends October 18, 2022.

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