In November last year, Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke took to the stage at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre in St. Augustine, Florida, and paid tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, who had passed away earlier in the year.
This was no ordinary tribute. Before the show, Rossington's family had presented Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr with Rossington's iconic 1961 Gibson Les Paul/SG, the guitar Rossington played on Skynyrd's classic Free Bird in 1973 (the guitar was made when SGs bore the Les Paul name, before the expiration of his endorsement deal with Gibson in 1963).
