Nels Cline has looked back on his love affair with the Fender Jazzmaster – an electric guitar that won his heart despite the fact it had once been considered the ugly duckling of the guitar world.
It is hard to believe it nowadays, but in the not-so-distant past the Jazzmaster was once considered a flop. Fender’s unveiled the now much-loved offset guitar design at NAMM 1958, and yet it didn’t quite take off at the time.
