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Thread #165296   Message #3963588
Posted By: Will Fly
27-Nov-18 - 11:10 AM
Thread Name: Electric guitar as a solo instrument
Subject: RE: Electric guitar as a solo instrument
A few years ago, I came across the guitar playing of Richard Fontenot from Louisiana, who played traditional Cajun tunes on an electric guitar with loads of reverb on it. I was so struck by the sound, I had a crack at one of the tracks: "Allons a Lafayette".

The guitar is a slimline, hollow-body made to my specs by luthier Ian Chisholm. I'd come across a DeArmond acoustic guitar pickup I played in the 1960s and 1970s and stuffed in a drawer many years ago. I had the guitar built around the pickup! The amp used in the recording is a Roland Cube - with loads of reverb...

Will Fly: "Allons a Lafayette" (after Richard Fontenot)