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Guitar World
Guitar World
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David Mead

“I thought, ‘That’s the guitar Mike Bloomfield played…’ I just had to buy it”: The mistake that led Robben Ford to buy his first great instrument –and how Miles Davis and Jeff Beck took him to the Strat

Robben Ford is pictured with his 1960 'Whiteguard' Fender Telecaster.

A new solo album from Robben Ford is always a major event in the guitar calendar. And Two Shades Of Blue doesn’t disappoint. Recorded in the UK and US, with two different sets of crack musicians, the album was originally intended to be a tribute to Jeff Beck.

In fact, Robben went out and bought a Stratocaster specially for the project and had Daniel Steinhardt from The GigRig put together a new pedalboard that echoed some of Beck’s guitar textures.

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