James Taylor's Guitatrs
Just curious if anybody knows what kind of guitar JT used in his "mid-career" (more or less the mid-eighties). I get th impression that most of his early stuff was recorded/played on Gibsons, and I...
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I have also seen the guitars with what appeared to be a "W" on the headstock, in the hands of Clarence White, Dan Fogelberg, and I believe Doc Watson. Surely someone out there knows what these are....
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JT played guitars made by Mark Whitebrook, who retired from instrument making in the '70s.Whitebrook suffered from asthma, and the materials involved in guitar-making had adverse effects on his...
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That's probably it alamo54. Thanks. Always been a mystery to me.JR
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JT used a Gibson J-50 on his earlier albums before switching to the Whitebrooks on "Mud Slide Slim". The Whitebrooks, to a great degree, were based on Martin designs.In 1984 James had 4 of them.Jim B
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... not Whitebrook. As far as I understand, he made excellent steel string guitars for several years, but is not making instruments now. There are a couple Japanese sites devoted to his guitars.Phil...
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Just to add a comment regarding the Olsens. Somewhere I read a story that James Olsen sneaked one of his guitars, an OM style cutaway, into Taylor's dressing room at a concert venue, with a note...
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