Jason Isbell likes great gear, but when Ed King's 1959 'Red Eye' Les Paul came up for sale after he passed away and he played it, the songwriter knew it was time to step up to join the rarified Burst club. And the Gibson Gazette has now broken the news that other players can soon have the next best thing with a limited run of Gibson Custom Shop recreations.
"This is one of the best examples of the most collectable guitar ever made," Isbell told GQ of the original in 2020. "It sounds like nothing else, plays like nothing else and sort of defines rock 'n' roll," he adds of the 'Burst.
