“I’ve always found them to be extraordinarily versatile guitars – you can play any kind of music on them”: Rockabilly great Darrel Higham on why he uses only Gretsch guitars – and that time he bought a 6120 he found lying around Jeff Beck’s house

Darrell Higham.

It would not shock anyone who has heard Darrel Higham play that he counts himself a superfan of That Great Gretsch Sound. He’s a rockabilly player, right? And that’s Gretsch to a tee.

But as Higham explains here, in what is a love letter to the brand's electric guitars than that. We all know a Gretsch can be a great blues guitar, a rock guitar, indie, alternative, jazz, whatever, and that’s why Higham can’t get enough of them, why he plays nothing else.