EPIPHONE INCORPORATED, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, CIRCA 1999

Steve Earle bought this guitar as a pair together with the preceding sunburst example. In an interview with Dan Erlewine featuring Steve Earle in conversation with Matt Umanov of Umanov Guitars, New York, for Vintage Guitar, 2009, Earle stated: I recently fell in love with guitars all over again. I thought I was through buying, but since I got out of jail, I started over. A lot of it has to do with that I put about a million dollars’ worth of guitars in my arm. And I tended to buy new guitars – I own two Epiphone Lennon Casino reissues which have been my main stage guitars because I don’t have to feel guilty about playing them. They’re still kind of an investment because they were a limited edition – and they’re well-made instruments. I concentrated on – and still buy – stuff like that. These two guitars became his main stage and studio guitars for over a decade.