Info about Kenny Vaughan's Tele?

[jonkay1]

I've searched the web and can't find any info. What kind of Tele is Kenny Vaughan playing? What kind of pickups? Electronics? Any info would sure be appreciated.

[strat-o-teleman]

Pretty sure it/they were built by Joe Glaser, not sure of the specifics.

He's one of my favorites,though. His Style and Tone are always just right.IMHO

[SpaceyBen]

He says in a youtube vid or maybe in a guitar mag that his guitars are made by Floyd Cassivas(? spelling) who iirc worked for Glaser... I did some searching for him online a while back and couldn't find anything... he may say about his guitars in his d'addario flatwounds interview on youtube or it may have been in an issue of Guitar Player a few months back that had an article about Marty Stuart

[hism-scism]

As SpaceyBen indicated, at least some of Kenny Vaughan's guitars are built by Floyd Cassista. As far as I know, Floyd is still working with Joe Glaser.

[67tele]

The main Guitar he plays on the Marty Stuart show looks to be 65 or 66 with a rosewood fretboard. Love the way he plays and his tone.

[jonkay1]

I would really love to know what kind of pickups are in that guitar. His sound borders on magical. He achieves a bell-like chimey tone that you just can't seem to get these days. I know he's playing through that silver faced Princeton Reverb, which helps.

[mellecaster]

I've seen Kenny play many different guitars over the years, had an Ugly A$$ Green G&L for quite awhile...Strats too...he's not a One Guitar guy at all.

[Kingpin]

That Kenny Vaughn feller has some serious chops! And when you combine that with Marty Stuarts great B-bending---you get magic!

I can't think of enough Fabulous Superlatives to describe their playing.

[mellecaster]

And did I forget to mention he is married to Carmella Ramsey !......sigh..

[Dr. Bill]

Originally Posted by jonkay1

I would really love to know what kind of pickups are in that guitar. His sound borders on magical. He achieves a bell-like chimey tone that you just can't seem to get these days. I know he's playing through that silver faced Princeton Reverb, which helps.

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From http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/c...l/aug-06/22084

Kenny, what gear did you use for the Badlands and Souls’ Chapel records?

Vaughn: My main guitars are chambered-body models loaded with Lindy Fralin pickups built by Floyd Cassista, who works for luthier Joe Glaser in Nashville. I also used an early ’80s Squire Strat quite a bit—I found out that Hollywood Fats played one, and he’s my favorite, so that made me feel good—and a ’59 Harmony Meteor that my father-in-law gave me. It’s the model Keith Richards and Dave Davies used. My amps were a Fender Princeton Reverb and a little Valco 1x12 combo. Man, I love Princetons. Turn ’em on, turn ’em up, use too much reverb and tremolo, and go for it! My strings are .012 sets of flatwounds, because I find flatwounds give the front end of the note more pop, and that notes decay smoother than they do with roundwound strings. Also, when I layer parts in the studio, flatwounds toughen up the track without getting in the way of the other instruments—especially if I use a real clean sound, and pick by the bridge using a medium-gauge pick. Listen to Wes Montgomery or Jimmy Bryant, and you’ll get an idea of what flatwounds sound like.

[jimmtimm]

I was lucky enough to meet Kenny a couple times while in Nashville. The first time he was raving about old Fender Broncos and said the B16(I believe?) Bigsby on his Glaser is the best Bigsby for a Tele. Put a tune-a-matic bridge on it. Second time he was playing a Jaguar.

[threadbare]

I've seen him play alot over the years. Seen him with that G&L tele style guitar with a bigsby, a Sunburst Tele, a couple of Floyd Cassita semi hollowbodies loaded with Fralins (one w/ humbuckers), a Jauguar, and that tele he plays on the Marty Stuart show. I've even seen him play ES-335s and Rickenbackers when he was with Lucinda Williams.

He once told me that he sometimes uses a Blues Driver, and an Even Tide Delay. Always Flat wounds.
I got a good look at the Fender Princeton he was using at the Ryman last month. It was Black Faced (very clean maybe a reissue?) and the settings that night were Volume-5 treble-3 bass-4 Reverb-6. The speed and intensity knobs were both on 1, so if he used tremelo that night it came from a pedal. Hope this helps. Wish I could play like him. Him and Marty are a modern day Don and Buck!

[threadbare]

Here's a pictue of what I believe to be his pedal board that night last june. I think I see a boss dd-3, a boss tremelo and I'm not sure about the blue pedal is that a blues driver or a CS-3 compressor. Can you Indentify anything else? What are those white pedals. There some stuff up top you can't really see also.

[threadbare]

Amp Settings:

[threadbare]

Bump, I thought more people would like to see this thread.

[Colt W. Knight]

I saw Marty and his fabulous superlatives once for an acoustic gig in Ashland, Ky. Kenny had a big of flat top with a tailpiece bridge setup. They were all dressed in black tuxes trimmed in neon green. Marty had neon green fringe and a big tassles.

[Chip]

Here are some pics of the green tele.......

[teleon]

Man, I really love watching and hearing Kenny play.

[GuitarJonz]

Kenny on flatwounds



He really burns on these 2 tunes, and it sure DON'T sound like flatwounds:

[smokerjoe34]

I've seen him play strats and it seems like regardless of what he's playin' he just flat out smokes it !! Just a very cool guitar player !!

[nasonm]

I just bought Chuck Mead's new CD "Journeyman's Wager" (Chuck is the lead singer of BR5-49) and Kenny V is ALL OVER that album. Check it out if you like Kenny's playing.

[Caffeine Patrol]

I saw him on the Opry awhile back playing an old Harmony hollowbody (not a Meteor or a Rocket, some 3 pickup double cutaway).
On a related note, I just recently read he's from Oklahoma; does anybody know from what part of the state he hails?

[sa paine]

Great stuff, love his Tele tone. Marty got in some good stuff too.

[gtrwrks]

Thanks for the KVaughn interview link - very cool.

[Superc_1]

Kenny is the man and Marty can hold his on foe sure. Where can a person find some tabs on that kind of jazz licks hes doing in walk like that? Anybody who loves princetons like I do has got to be cool.