Please identify Garnet Rogers' guitar

[pjmacd]

Garnet Rogers played today at the Woodstock (IL) Folk Festival. Like all of us, he's getting older, but he still sings like an angel and plays like a demon. He was not plugged in, and both of his guitars sounded terrific. He brought his own mics with him and I assume they were condenser mics, since he asked Maurice the sound man for phantom power on both.

My question concerns the guitar he is playing in the attached photo. I was shooting through the vertical bars on a railing around the gazebo in the town square, so try to ignore the vertical lines. This looks to me like an older Gibson, but I can't identify the body style. Whatever it is, it sounded great.

IMG_6064 (2) by Peter M, on Flickr

[downtime]

Looks like a vintage J-35 to me. Very cool guitar!!

Here is a picture of a 1939

[Wade Hampton]

I agree, it appears to be a 30's vintage J-35. At first I thought it might be a smaller model, since it looks fairly small in his hands, but then I remembered that both of the Rogers brothers were big old boys.

Never met Garnet, but I did meet Stan.


whm

[pjmacd]

downtime, I think you might have nailed it! Let's see what other responses we get.

[Daniel Grenier]

Saw Garnet many years back in a small venue. I was no more than 15 feet from him and could hear everything coming out of the 4 or 5 vintage Gibsons he had with him. None were the one in the pic as all were in the “dark” color (J35 or 45, I assume?)

He switched between all guitars and they all sounded incredibly rich and powerful in his expert hands. He told a fairly long story about his brother and was sporadically strumming a basic G chord. I still, to this day, recall that simple G as the most beautiful chord I ever heard.

[fwphoto]

I know its not the guitar in question with this thread, but . . .

Here he is at Stanfest a few years ago:



That's a Voyage-air VAOM-04 in his lap. He had Harvey Leach put a K&K pickup in it & it sounded very good in both the workshop & main stage performances. It was a VERY COLD & VERY RAINY festival that year. I think he made a smart decision on which guitar to bring. (I brought my new VAOM-02 with me that year, too. :-)

Frank

[Inyo]

Garnet Rogers is of course a confirmed vintage Gibson enthusiast.

He needs more Martins in his stable, though; last I heard, he has but one--a 1943 000-18 that he says once belonged to the guy who wrote and performed "Convoy" (William Dale Fries, Jr.--AKA, C.W. McCall).