I had Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player, out on tour with me, and he showed up with a $120 Squier Strat. He played it on stage that night and killed it : Kenny Wayne Shepherd on why tone is in the hands (but it helps to have a trio of Dumbles)

The blues-rocker shares the story of his decade-long search for a 1960 Les Paul, why his Marshall amps just wouldn’t stop blowing up, and what made him convert to the single-cut after decades of Strat

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