THERE’S NOTHING REVEALING about the band name GA-20 — unless you happen to be obsessed with Holy Grail vintage guitar tones like guitarists Matthew Stubbs and Pat Faherty, who founded the raw blues trio in 2018.
You read that correctly: Instead of merely referencing their favorite guitar tones from early electric blues and rock ’n’ roll records, Stubbs and Faherty went all the way and named their band after the period-correct Gibson GA-20 amplifier — which Stubbs keeps front-and-center in his amp arsenal — as a statement of intent to avoid the slick,
