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Jonatha
Brooke
Jonatha mainly tours with two guitars, a Guild G-30 blond
jumbo and an Olson cedar-top cutaway, which is also the
guitar she records with. She also occasionally travels with
a Parker electric guitar and a Roland VG-8.
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Catie
Curtis
Catie plays a new Gibson J-30 and a Martin D-18 from the
late '80s.
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Ani
DiFranco
Ani plays an Alvarez-Yairi Bob Weir model in her live shows.
DiFranco plays a larger Yairi model in the studio.
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Peter
Heitzman
Peter Heitzman, the guitar wizard who rocks our world
whenever he and Karen Savoca play Blue Moon, uses a Washburn
(the Woodstock model) on stage. He says its nothing special,
"actually it's a laminated guitar... read plywood!" The six
string Longhorn Bass he plays is made by Jerry Jones in
Nashville, and it's made from Masonite! At home, Pete
reports that they have too many guitars to mention them all,
but that he's partial to their Guild acoustics, an F-47E,
F-20, and an F212 twelve string.By the way, Pete can find
the wah wah in the Washburn.We've heard him do it on our
very own Washburn. Amazing.
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Lucy
Kaplansky
Lucy Kaplansky's approach to the guitar is a model of
stripped-down simplicity. Twenty years down the road, she
remains faithful to a trusty 1928 Martin 00-18 she bought in
the late '70s.
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Jennifer
Kimball
Jennifer Kimball's guitar was built through a unique
arrangement between John Colvin and T.J. Thompson, a
Concord, Massachusetts-based custom luthier and restorer of
early 1930s Martins. When Thompson worked as a repairman at
Elderly Instruments in East Lansing, Michigan, Colvin came
to him for advice on constructing a guitar and wound up
building it according to Thompson's specs and under his
supervision. The guitar itself was Thompson's payment for
the consultation, and he later sold it to Kimball. It's an
M-size model with a mahogany body and a German spruce top,
thoroughly scraped up by a feverish rhythm player in an
Irish band who borrowed the guitar from Thompson before
Kimball got it.
On stage, Kimball refers to her three-stringed Strumstick as
"the love child of some illicit affair between the dulcimer
and the broom."
Kimball also plays a Martin baritone uke ("the D cup of
ukuleles," she quips) that's amplified with a Fishman
soundboard transducer. Finally, she has a Martin T-28 tiple,
the instrument that she first played in Patty Larkin's band
and that inspired her to begin writing on the guitar.
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Christine
Lavin
Christine Lavin was shopping for a second guitar when she
discovered her first Larrivée six-string, a used
model. She has since acquired two more new Larriveés,
though presently she's playing the used model live and in
the studio.
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Patty
Larkin
Patty Larkin's main guitars are a Martin D-18 and a 1993
Olson SJ cutaway. Larkin's Olson guitar has an Engelmann
spruce top and rosewood back and sides. Larkin's blue Fender
Strat is a 1957 reissue made in the late 1980s.
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Peter
Mulvey
Peter Mulvey is still mourning the February theft of his
Lowden L-25 in Middlebury, Vermont—the guitar had
served him for five records and an estimated 700 gigs. Built
during the period when the Irish maker's instruments were
manufactured in Japan, the guitar has a cedar top, rosewood
back and sides, ebony tuning pegs, and a flower inlay (which
came from Mulvey's great-grandfather's fiddle) on the
headstock where the logo would usually go. In the meantime,
he's playing a cedar-topped Seagull S6, formerly his
official subway guitar.
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Willy
Porter
Willy Porter plays Guild and Bischoff guitars. His
newest guitar is named "Yellow Dog" and is currently used on
tour in support of his latest CD, Willy
Porter.
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Ann
Rabson
Ann's main guitar is still her beloved and trusty Gibson
LG-1, her first guitar, given to her by her father when she
began playing. She also has another old Gibson and a Gibson
ES-124 from either the late '50s or early '60s.
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Jill
Sobule
Jill Sobule's two main acoustic guitars are a Baby
Collings and a Vagabond travel guitar. On the electric side,
she's a devotee of Gretsch guitars.
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TROUT
FISHING IN AMERICA
Ezra Idlet plays a Gurian guitar, which is battle-scarred
from his percussive playing. At home, Keith Grimwood plays a
German bass from the 1870s, but he travels with a 1950s Kay
with a Barcus-Berry bridge, a Fender Jazz Bass, and a
Clevinger electric upright.
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Susan
Werner
Susan Werner plays: Lowden 032c, Martin D-35, Parker
Fly, Danelectro Longhorn with Jenkins Custom neck, and
Jenkins Saddle pal Parlor Guitar.
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Cheryl
Wheeler
Cheryl Wheeler is passionate about all of her guitars. Her
collection includes an Olson which she refuses to take on an
airplane and a koa Collings SJ which is her current
favorite. Her road guitars are a Martin-D28 herringbone and
a custom Granata 00.
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Dar
Williams
Dar Williams' guitar of choice is a Martin OM-21.
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