BLUEPRINT: Fender Kingfish Telecaster Deluxe
He’s the kind of player who can make people’s heads turn with just a few notes. Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram has that rare quality that BB King had – the ability to imbue solos with weight and feeling, even when playing simple phrases. However, the Clarksdale, Mississippi, bluesman is also a blisteringly effective player in the faster sections, too, never losing his phrasing when he’s laying down the notes thick and fast. He’s used a wide range of electrics in the past few years, from custom electrics to Les Pauls and Strats. But it seems he’s finally settled down – teaming up with Fender to launch the Kingfish Telecaster Deluxe recently.
The guitar forms part of what seems like a minor resurgence for Fender’s 70s twinhumbucker single-cut, which had – it’s fair to say – languished among the company’s less widely used designs for many years. Now, however, a Tele Deluxe forms a central model in Fender’s newly revamped American Vintage II range, announced last month,
