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New Addition to the Family

January 23, 2008 by Josh

A couple of weeks ago, I welcomed a new addition to my guitar family. Meet Lucille:

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As you can see, Lucille is the Epiphone version of B.B. King’s signature Gibson guitar called Lucille. I’ve always loved the tone that B.B. gets live and on record, and when I was looking for a new guitar, I wanted something a little different than a Strat or a Les Paul. A hollow-body seemed to fit the bill.

One interesting feature of the Lucille guitars is a Vari-tone control. This feature provides 6 different tone settings that allow you to choose from different tones, even simulating single-coil tones. Another difference between the Lucille guitar and other hollow-bodies is that the Lucille guitar does not have f-holes, which helps reduce feedback.

I’ve only had the guitar for a few weeks, but so far I’ve been very pleased. I love the tone that the guitar produces, and it plays very smoothly. This guitar is pure blues!

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Comments

  1. Gary Grainger says

    January 23, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Very nice!

  2. Guitar Playing Freak says

    January 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Dude, i absolutely love that guitar, im seriously jealous

  3. Jon says

    January 23, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Ooh and she’s a beauty! I hope you entered my competition on Guitar Noize seeing as you own the answer to the contest question!! 🙂

  4. Josh says

    January 23, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks for the kind words! She is a beaut 🙂

    Jon, I’m entered! Let’s hope I win!

  5. Taylor says

    January 23, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    I was wondering when she might show up. Very nice indeed!

  6. guitarstruck says

    January 24, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Congratulations on a great buy. OK, your next post is going to have to be a sound video. I’m sure there are lots of us that would love to hear you play it.

  7. Josh says

    January 24, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    @guitarstruck: Thanks for the kind words. I’m not set up yet to do any recording, but hopefully I will be soon!

  8. IG says

    January 25, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Nice! But, listen, can you do a BB King blues face? http://igblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/show-me-da-blues-face/

    IG

  9. Josh says

    January 25, 2008 at 9:55 am

    @IG: No, I haven’t quite perfected my blues face 🙂

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