“That guitar is part of Dad. I never even thought that of the idea that there might be a companion guitar to his”: Gibson salutes two American musical greats with the Custom Shop Rosanne Cash J-185 and Johnny Cash SJ-200 acoustics

Gibson Custom Rosanne Cash J-185.

Gibson has unveiled a pair of stunning Custom Shop acoustic guitars celebrating the late Johnny Cash and his daughter, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, featuring some exquisite signature details (just look at those pickguards!) co-designed with the artists themselves.

The Johnny Cash SJ-200 is a real time machine reproduction, based upon a pair of custom SJ-200s that Gibson made for the Man In Black in the late ‘50s, complete with his own pickguard design, while the Rosanne Cash J-185 is very much a companion piece, featuring an alternative take on the jumbo, built to Cash junior’s specs, and featuring her own pickguard design – with some input from her husband, the musician and producer John Leventhal.