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Willie Nelson has said the Martin N-20 nylon-string he calls Trigger gave him the Django Reinhardt tone he was after. It has been seen with a Baldwin PrismaTone pickup and preamp moved from his old Baldwin 800C, played through Baldwin amplifiers, and La Bella lists him with its Folksinger 830 strings.
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“That’s really what I was striving for, that tone that Django got.”
“They knocked me clean off my feet.”
“It puts some positive thoughts in your head when you might be thinking negative”
“Babe, you got any of that CBD coffee?”
He has played Trigger, a Martin N-20 nylon-string classical guitar, since 1969. He has said it had a little more Django in it than the Baldwin it replaced, and that Django's tone was what he was striving for.
Guitar.com reported in 2022 that Trigger's pickup and preamp are built to work with the Baldwin amplifier that came with his old guitar, and that he travels with about eight Baldwin amps, two on stage at a time.
A Baldwin PrismaTone bridge pickup and preamp, moved from his Baldwin 800C after it was stepped on. Backup pickups come from late 1960s Baldwin acoustics.
La Bella lists Willie Nelson on its artist roster with its Folksinger 830 black nylon strings.
Rolling Stone saw him ask for his CBD coffee during a 2019 interview, meaning Willie's Remedy, the hemp-infused coffee sold by his own company.
Guitar.com reported in 2022 that Trigger wears Hauser Schaller tuners, replaced more than a dozen times because the gears wear out, especially on the D string.
Willie Nelson is the Texas country singer and songwriter behind Red Headed Stranger, On the Road Again and Always on My Mind. This guide covers Trigger, his Martin nylon-string guitar, the Baldwin pickup and amps behind its sound, and a few things he has said he loves.
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