Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Gibson ES-150 Charlie Christian

Brand: Gibson
Model: ES-150

According to the book Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie used this guitar to record the song Boot Hill, from the 1991 posthumous album The Sky Is Crying.

Specs

This is an electric-Spanish model from Gibson, made popular by Charlie Christian who bought his in 1936. It features a fully hollow body, with an arched solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides, and a mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard. It also has a single bar-style pickup in the neck position, which over the years became known as the “Charlie Christion pickup“.

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