High Society
WHAT BETTER VEHICLE to drive to the country club than a Cadillac? And what better guitar to pull out for that swanky gig than a Gretsch Country Club — and a Cadillac Green one at that. Introduced in 1951, the Country Club had changed substantially by the time our featured example from 1962 arrived, embodying a form that will be more familiar to most of today’s players. Yet even then, it remained one of Gretsch’s grandest electric guitars, and a sign that a guitarist had “made it.”
Labeled with the 6196 model designation when dressed
