Artists and their guitars
I thought it would be fun to compile some info on what guitars our favorite artists are playing these days…
Epiphone/Gibson:
Everlife
Taylor Sorensen (acoustic)
Brad Avery (Third Day)
ZOEgirl
Avalon guitars:
Chris Tomlin
Yamaha:
Shaun Groves
Michael W. Smith
Taylor Sorensen (electric)
McPherson guitars:
Michael Olson
Dana Cappillino (Husband of Leigh and musical director for the touring Point of Grace band.)
Taylor guitars:
Alathea
Bethany Dillon (Used primarily on the first album tour, has been spotted with a Guild lately.)
Matthew West
Watermark
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:24 pm
I have seen those ads for Avalon and Chris Tomlin, but I haven’t seen him play one these days at all. He seems to be playing his Colings and McPherson. He was on tour with Steven Curtis Chapman who also plays McPherson as do 2 of his band members. I’ve been seeing a lot of other Christian artists playing Mcphersons like, Paul Baloche, Martin Smith & Stu (Delirious!), Cliff Young, Andrew Onsenga & Josh Moore (Caedmons Call), Peter Furler & Philip Joel (Newsboys),Lenny LeBlanc and even Amy Grant. Seems like more every day.
Tom
June 23rd, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Oh, and the guys from Mercy Me are also using McPherson I think.
June 25th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
>I have seen those ads for Avalon and Chris Tomlin, but I haven’t seen him play one these days at all.
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen him play those either. I put in the latest Passion DVD to see what he was playing there and it looks like a Collings and not an Avalon.
>I’ve been seeing a lot of other Christian artists playing Mcphersons
I have also noticed that the McPhersons are really catching on with more folks lately. A lot of players that normally played Taylors are adding a McPherson to their collection. I saw Caedmon’s Call in concert last Saturday and Cliff was playing one. He used to play Martins quite a bit I thought. He was playing another guitar that I couldn’t figure out what it was. The pictures from the show are in the photo gallery on our Music Quotient page. If you can figure out what guitar that is, let me know.