Jason Isbell recently demoed his prized 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar, formerly owned by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ed King, at virtual guitar show Guitar.com Live.In a 30-minute session broadcast on October 3, the country-rock musician showed off the instrument – named Red Eye – from his rehearsal barn in Nashville, playing a few Led Zeppelin riffs and sharing about how the one-of-a-kind guitar came into his possession.“In my opinion the greatest sound in the whole world is a child’s laughter, and second to that is a Les Paul through a Marshall [amp] turned all the way up,” Isbell quipped.Isbell explained that Sharon King, the widow of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and bassist Ed King, had brought a number of her late husband’s old guitars into Nashville.
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