I first heard about the Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Artist Series Stratocaster several months ago, but didn’t hear much about it from Fender. However, I noticed today that Fender has information about the guitar on their Web site.
The guitar is based on Kenny’s own ’61 Fender Strat and features custom-voiced Kenny Wayne Shepherd pickups, an alder body, maple neck w/ rosewood fretboard, and 21 jumbo frets.
This guitar looks pretty nice and has a street price in the $700-$750 range. Guitar Center is reporting that models will be available in October.
As an interesting (to me) aside, Kenny Wayne Shepherd played a small role in my wife and I getting together. At the time, my wife and I had mutual friends and one night I mentioned that I was going to the KWS concert that was coming up. At the time, KWS was not all that well known, but my wife surprised me by knowing who he was and being interested in going to the show. Not only that, she was a fan of SRV, as well. She’s had my heart ever since!
And you had my heart ever since that day too! 🙂
That is a sweet looking guitar!! I like the stripes, they remind me of the stripes on a Camaro.
The price is just right too!
KJ