Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens has a lot of great acoustic songs and I just love his arrangements along side with his other guitarist, Alun Davis.

They both played Gibson guitars. A lot of Cat’s songs have a very tight rhythm patterns and having Alun Davis taking care of the arpeggios and licks, cats usually strummed whole chords with a pick in very percussive way. One of his favorite guitars was a black Everly Brothers model of Gibson, which is kind of a rare model and has the smaller waist of grand auditorium guitars. Old dry Mahogany, smaller than a Jumbo Gibson, although a little thin sounding. They are both great strummers (Bob Dylan used a small body Gibson Nick Lukas model in his early work besides the J-50) and have a very balanced sound with out too much bass, which is good for playing whole chords without separating the bass lines too much.

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