Donated by brother Jimmie Vaughan , Lenny is the only guitar personally owned by Stevie Ray to be released into the public domain.

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As their voices met in perfect confluence, accompanied only by acoustic guitar, I made a quick transition from casual fan to happy acolyte.

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But perhaps its biggest experiment of all was taking a cute pop tune from the '60s called "Spanish Harlem" and asking a white British singer to perform it, with only a 1932 vintage guitar as backup.

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It was the only instrument they had, a guitar, and they played the guitar and sang the blues.

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It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.

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On the screen of his MacBook, Evan Lowenstein watches singer-songwriter Jason Manns strumming an acoustic guitar in his apartment, where the only audience member is a snoozing dog.

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The Gibson guitar also attracted international attention for its rarity: Only 283 were produced and most were right-handed.

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For this session, Muhl sings and plays bass guitar, accordion, melodica, glockenspiel and percussion, all instruments she's only recently learned to play, but on which she performs with wonderful musicality.

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