Also the guitarist in his Nashville Street Band played a Kay archtop with all the electrics stripped out.ģ0 Gus Cannon – 1920s Gretsch Broadkaster and Van Eps Recording banjos.
Burnside – Martin D-28, Gibson LG-2, Japanese Epiphone dreadnaught.Ģ7 Charlie Burse – National Silver Tenor Style 1, Triolian, Harmony ukulele.Ģ8 Joe Callicott – Stella, Harmony Archtop and H1203 flat-top.Ģ9 Blind James Campbell – Kay K-24 flattop. Bill played a Martin 000-28 during his late 40s/early 50s acoustic period.Ģ1 Buster Brown – Dobro (Regal) Model 27.Ģ2 Gabriel Brown – Harmony, Dobro Model 45, Gibson J-35.Ģ4 Willie Brown – Stella for the May 1930 recordings apparently this was the make he preferred.Ģ6 R.L. A Kay Solo Special in the 1960s.ġ6 Pillie Bolling – “A mail-order red Stella”.ġ7 Wee Bea Booze (Muriel Nicholls) – Regal Model 27½ resonator tenor guitar.Ģ0 Big Bill (Broonzy) (p) – c.1920 Gibson Model O, Bacon & Day Senorita, Epiphone DeLuxe, Gibson L7. a resonator guitar on 1929 sessions onward.ġ3 Black Ace (Babe Turner) – National Style 2 Hawaiian, Kalamazoo KG-11.ġ4 Scrapper Blackwell – National Triolian (c.1931), 1926 Gibson L-0 (thanks to Paul Fox) and Stellas. an A or a G), but he also played guitar (a Gibson Dove) and banjo (NorMa(?) and Maybelle 5-strings)ħ “Memphis Willie B.” Boerum – Epiphone Triumph.ĩ John Henry Barbee – Gibson L-1, Harmony 165 flattop.ġ0 Jim Baxter (of Jim & Andrew Baxter) – Stella.ġ2 Blind Blake – Harmony(?) concert, prob. Also an unidentified standard guitar and, reportedly, a Martin.ĥ Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong – Weyman banjo-mandolin, “Keystone” flat-back mandolin.Ħ DeFord Bailey – Yes, I know, a Hohner Marine Band (pref.
Sears Catalog from around the turn of the century.Ģ Elester Anderson – Gibson Southern Jumbo (Kip Lornell’s?).ģ Pink Anderson (p) – Harmony, Gibson B-25, J-50, Martin 0-18.Ĥ Kokomo Arnold – a National Model O strung for left-handed playing (glass bottleneck on the pinkie). (Stella) was making at the time.Ĭharley Patton started playing professionally around 1909, wonder what he was playing?.Too bad there ain't pictures of him playing it. The flat top version of the Gibson L1 (Robert Johnson) came out in 1926.Not sure what the Oscar Schmidt Co. Martin didn't offer a steel string guitar until 1922.The Gibson L1 Archtop came out in 1902, with steel strings I believe, but it was a carved body and must have been expensive. Steel strings weren't available until about 1900, and were still pretty rare until the 1920s. Mexicans migrants likely introduced guitars intro the south, and Yazoo/Mississippi Delta area where they became popular earlier than in other areas.And of course parlour guitars had been around for some time (gut string). Most groups used banjos and mandolins for rhythm.Īll guitars at the time were gut string and not very loud. I've read that around the turn of the century guitars weren't really that common with folk, country and blues musicians yet.
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