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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Henry Yates

“I can play barre chords and my dad couldn’t. He had a strum that was identifiably his, but I learned from the Carter women. Mine is more of a Carter scratch”: How Rosanne Cash found her sound – and captured Johnny’s design flair in her signature Gibson

Rosanne Cash playing her Gibson acoustic guitar – her 'Cash' strap lies beside her on a table.

Glance at them under the lights and there’s no mistaking the rock ’n’ roll dynasty behind Gibson’s latest signature guitars.

Even if you never saw Johnny Cash driving his beloved brimstone SJ-200 back in the 1950s, it’s hard to miss the Man In Black’s moniker snaking up the neck of this recreation in inch-high mother-of-pearl letters.

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