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Ray Benson’s Gibson ES-355


Anyone with a taste for real country music – in particular, Western swing – will recognize the guitar pictured here. Even though Asleep At The Wheel leader Ray Benson quit using this early-’60s Gibson ES-355 in about 1985 (and eventually sold it), it’s the guitar fans inevitably associate with him – and, with a Lone Star Beer sticker displayed proudly on its face, as iconic a Texas image as Bob Wills’ Stetson and cigar.

In 1989 or ’90, I helped Ray sell the famous Gibson to the Hard Rock Café. One ...
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