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What guitar does Danny Gatton play?

Danny Gatton was seen with a heavily modified 1953 Fender Telecaster loaded with custom Joe Barden pickups, later a Fender Custom Shop signature Telecaster, and a 1954 Gibson ES-295 on his Holiday Inn jazz set. As a kid he made multi-track tapes on a blond Gibson ES-350.

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What guitar did Danny Gatton play?

His main guitar in the 1980s was a 1953 Fender Telecaster, serial 4883, with custom Joe Barden pickups and a mount for his Magic Dingus Box. In the early 1990s the Fender Custom Shop worked with him on a Danny Gatton signature Telecaster.

What pickups did Danny Gatton use?

Custom Joe Barden pickups: a humbucking design in a standard Tele-size single-coil format with two side-by-side bobbins and blade polepieces, wound to give single-coil tones without hum.

What happened to Danny Gatton's 1953 Telecaster?

He traded it to his friend Jack Jensen for a 1934 Ford four-door sedan. Jensen later returned it to Gatton's widow, and Heritage Auctions sold it in 2015 for $62,500.

What jazz guitar did Danny Gatton play?

Guitar World noted that the remastered Live at the Holiday Inn 1987 showcases the sound of his 1954 Gibson ES-295.

Who influenced Danny Gatton?

He told Guitar World he was into Howard Roberts, then Wes Montgomery, rockabilly players like Scotty Moore and Carl Perkins, and later Lenny Breau. He grew up on his parents' Les Paul 45s.

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Danny Gatton (1945 to 1994) was the Telecaster virtuoso known as The Humbler and the Telemaster, blending rockabilly, jazz, country and blues on albums like 88 Elmira Street. This legacy guide covers the Telecasters and Gibsons he was seen playing and the players he said he listened to.

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