Keb' Mo'
From Geartome
circa 2001
(from Acoustic Guitar magazine)
- BAND GIGS: Martin or Epiphone flattop, Beltona electric resophonic, Epiphone Sheraton (Sheraton into a Mesa Boogie Mark IV, acoustics into a SWR California Blonde)
- SOLO GIGS: above guitars, 1995 steel-bodied National, Martin dreadnought Keb' Mo' signature model (direct to the mixing board)
- STUDIO: (The Door) Goodall koa-body w/ cedar top, Martin acoustic, Beltona electric resophonic ("It Hurts Me Too"), Larry Pogreba aluminum resonator guitar ("Don't You Know"), Epiphone Bluesmaster
- Highlander pickups (in the resophonics)
- D'Addario phosphor-bronze medium-gauge strings (resophonics)
- D'Addario phosphor-bronze light-gauge strings (acoustics)
- D'Addario nickel light-gauge strings (electrics)
- Jim Dunlop plastic thumbpicks and metal fingerpicks
- Fender/D'Addario heavy flatpicks
- black ceramic Moonshine Mudslides
circa 2010/2011
(from his official website)
- custom Stratocaster ("that RED guitar") (main guitar) ("This is the one that is the most Keb' Mo'." - Keb' Mo')
- red Hamer w/ Gibson pickups (main live guitar, "workhorse guitar")
- Epiphone Sheraton (lost in 2010 Nashville flood)
- Danelectro Selectomatic (studio only) (lost in 2010 Nashville flood)
- National Style N
- National Resorocket
- Beltona resophonic
- Gibson Keb' Mo' signature model acoustic (based on the Epiphone Bluesmaster)
- custom James Goodall parlor acoustic
- Galveston resonator guitar (ES-335-shaped, w/ P90)