EPIPHONE, HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, PEERLESS, KOREA, CIRCA 2004

Name: DWIGHT YOAKAM
Brand: EPIPHONE, HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, PEERLESS, KOREA, CIRCA 2004
Price: 8500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 10,625

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USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

Closed: 29 Oct 2020

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DWIGHT YOAKAM

EPIPHONE, HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, PEERLESS, KOREA, CIRCA 2004

Price Realised USD 10,625

Closed: 29 Oct 2020

Price Realised USD 10,625

Closed: 29 Oct 2020

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DWIGHT YOAKAM
EPIPHONE, HOLLOW-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, PEERLESS, KOREA, CIRCA 2004
Labeled Model CASINO NA/ Number R04F0474 is hereby/ GUARANTEED/ against faulty workmanship and materials/ Epiphone, bearing the logo Epiphone at the peghead, the laminated body of maple with blonde finish, the bound rosewood fingerboard with faux-mother of pearl parallelogram position markers, mounted with two P-90 pickups, signed on the top with gold felt-tip marker 'Best Always/ Dwight Yoakam/ "Blame the Vain" '05'
18¹⁄₈ in. (46 cm.), length of back
Together with a Gibson hardshell case, black guitar strap and capo, the case inscribed with gold felt-tip marker 'used by DY on BTV Album Covershoot + Vain Shoot', the top inscribed 'Best Always/ Dwight Yoakam'

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Lot Essay

The first Epiphone Casino ever owned by Dwight Yoakam, this guitar is featured on the cover of his 2005sixteenth studio album, and it appears in the official music videos for both "Blame the Vain" and "Intentional Heartache". The album heralded a new era in Yoakam's career, being the first where he single-handedly wrote all of the songs and produced the album. He also directed the music videos for both "Intentional Heartache" and the title track. In comments to his biographer, Don McCleese, Yoakam cites Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as inspiration for the sound production quality of the album:

"On Blame the Vain, I was doing things with the bass, specifically. The frequency of the bass response was more akin to something you might hear in 1968 than you would in the mid-1970s, when tape heads were wider and you went to twenty-four-track, so you were playing with sonics differently…If you listened to "Bridge Over Troubled Water", which was recorded in like 1971, there was this recording technology that we kind of slipped beyond in the mid-1970s, and everything got overly thick. And we lost the beauty of melody."

Dwight Yoakam has won 2 Academy of Country Music Awards and received 10 nominations.

Photos courtesy of Dwight Yoakam