75 years of the Fender Telecaster: The guitar that changed the world
This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party.
I arrive in Nashville from Perth after three flights and around 35 hours, which involve the guy in the row in front of me on the Perth-to-Sydney leg vomiting uncontrollably for half the flight, then an unscheduled and unwanted seven-hour layover in LAX, all accompanied by very little sleep.
After a much-needed shower and dinner, I find myself nursing a beer in Robert’s Western World, one of the last remaining genuine honky tonks on Broadway. The trio ripping it up onstage is Kelley’s Heroes, and they’re something of an institution, playing here four nights a week, and evolving from the decades-long mentorship of Broadway icon Don Kelley, who has now retired.
On lead guitar is Luke McQueary, a smiley guy in his mid-twenties who can cluck like Buck...
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