“A flamboyant guitar suited to a flamboyant performer”: T-Bone Walker’s Gibson ES-5N helped give rise to electric blues – and it’s been listed for $2 million

T-Bone Walker's Gibson ES-5.

T-Bone Walker’s iconic 1949 Gibson ES-5N has been listed on Reverb for a whopping $2 million.

The Texas-born guitarist helped pioneer the electric blues during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, inspiring more iconic guitarists along the way – and he played no other guitar as much as he did this hollowbody.