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Eddy Clearwater poses for a studio portrait in 1975, holding a Fender Telecaster guitar, in the United States.

Ten of the Greatest Chicago Blues Songs

By Guitar Player Staff published

Return to the source of inspiration with these Windy City blues guitar classics

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Faherty with his Blue Teisco ET-440 Spectrum and Stubbs with his new Waterslide Guitars custom Telecaster. This was Faherty’s first Teisco, bought for the Hound Dog Taylor tribute album. “We did a lot of trial and error to find the guitar that got close to Hound Dog Taylor’s tone,” he says. He eventually sold it to buy a 1960s Kingston S4T and 1960s Kawai SD40.

“We Try to Always Make a Record That We Would Want to Listen to”: GA-20 Guitarists Matt Stubbs and Pat Faherty Show Us the Gear That Fuels Their Authentic Blues-Rock Tone

By Mark McStea published

Their stripped-down approach has propelled the “Lords of Lo-Fi” to the top of the blues charts

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