Christone “Kingfish” Ingram on the enduring appeal of the Fender Telecaster: “A lot of guitars now are designed to do everything, but the Tele already does that without trying”

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram plays his signature Tele Deluxe onstage.

With the Fender Telecaster celebrating 75 trips around the sun we speak to a blues guitar maestro who has made the O.G. mass-produced electric guitar his own, Mr Christone Ingram – the man the people know as Kingfish.

“The Telecaster proves you don’t need much to say a lot," he says. "It’s about as stripped down as it gets. Two knobs, two pickups, a switch. That’s it!