Willie Nelson knows two things about great music: it isn't about the label on the guitar, and it doesn't require killing off endangered species, violating the Lacey Act, or winking at child labor.
Someone tell Gibson Guitar which seems to think buying tropical hardwoods that are illegally obtained is a "never mind" and that they can hide behind the current economic malaise. Forget it. This company needs to clean up or get out. Is it really that hard to source legal wood? It isn't.
As for Willie's guitar, "Trigger," is a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic he bought sight unseen in 1969. Been doing the job ever since.
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Seeing all the scars on "Trigger" brought these lyrics immediately to mind:
"Stared at that guitar in that museum in Tennessee,
Name plate on the glass brought back twenty melodies,
Scars upon the face told about all the times he fell,
Singin' all the stories he could tell.."
We saw Willie a few years ago, and he put on a helluva show.
Seahorse
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