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Johnny Cash Guitarist Luther Perkins' 1953 Esquire & John Carter Cash's 1959 Gibson Les Paul Burst!

This 1953 Fender Esquire belonged to Luther Perkins, who was a member of Cashā€™s first recording bands and played on all of the Man in Blackā€™s foundational recordings for Sun Recordsā€”likely with this guitar. Perkins played this instrument during the period when Cash classics from ā€œI Walk the Lineā€ to ā€œFolsom Prison Bluesā€ were cut. John Carter Cash bought this 1959 GibsonĀ Les Paul at Gruhnā€™s in Nashville. It has a neck that is atypically slim for its vintage and appears as part of the psychedelic guitar interplay on the Songwriter song ā€œDrive On.ā€

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Rig Rundown: Joe Robinson

Guitarist extraordinaire Joe Robinsonā€”touring behind his new mostly acoustic album, The Prizeā€”shows PGā€™s John Bohlinger some of his prized 6-strings, ā€™60s Fender amps, and effects.

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