Once upon a time, in the prelapsarian era before broadband, TikTok and vaping, players could browse guitars in a catalogue before ordering one through the mail. If this was you in the 1930s and you took a shine to a cheap acoustic guitar with a squarish headstock, badged “Rex”, you were in fact buying a Gretsch guitar, and this Rex sub-brand is the inspiration behind Gretsch’s Jim Dandy Concert model.
Now, we’ve seen the JD a few times before in its smaller, parlour-style size, but for 2024, Gretsch has expanded the range to also include Dreadnought and Concert-sized strummers. Here we have the Concert model, and as with the rest, it looks like it’s straight out the ’30s.
