Long-time lover Keith Urban has revealed he’s working with Paul Reed Smith on a new Tele-type model as he searches for something a little different in his next guitar. Namely, he wants a Tele without limits and a that isn’t as easy to play as its siblings, as the guitarist wants to wage war with his six strings rather than kneeling to their whims. The country star has played many guitars over his career, but has long been associated with Fender guitars more so than any other brand – his 40th Anniversary Fender Telecaster, ‘Clarence,’ which he’s owned since 1989, chief among them.
But now he has followed in the footsteps of his friend John Mayer by joining the PRS team. As it turns out, Mayer’s best-selling highlighted some of Clarence’s shortcomings, prompting him to jump ship and strike up a working relationship with Smith to remedy issues he faces with his beloved Tele. “John had Paul build a guitar for him for the Dead & Company run that he did [the ‘Dead Spec’ Silver Sky], and he wanted one guitar, like, ‘Can I just play one guitar all night?’” Urban says in a new interview with .
“I thought, ‘Let's see if I can get back to a bit more of that.’ The new project will use the T-type design as a launch pad, with Urban eager to put his stamp all over the build-in-progress. Urban says he can “play anything on Clarence,” but adds “I just wish it sounded a little bit better.
It's a frustrating thing. So, that was really the beginning of the.