Blues News with John Ward – Australian Guitar

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Claude Hay returns from three months of sold shows in USA and France to come home and make a new guitar that will feature on his next album due out in 2012. This is no ordinary guitar though, as it’s fashioned out of a baking tray! Hay has included a bass string as well as four pick ups; one condensor microphone, one Piezo Bridge pickup, one tele bridge pickup and an EMG pickup. It’s a cross between a resonator, an acoustic and a tele with a bass option. The perfect tool for a one-man band. Hay started recording his next album at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, and now, armed with his new baby (called Stella), the rest of the album will ensue, due out mid 2012.