Texas guitarist and Red Sky July member, Ally McErlaine, is appealing for help to find a lost guitar. Ally was given the mid-1970s Gibson ES 335 Sunburst when he joined Texas aged 17 and he has played it on every album by the band and on all their tours.
The guitar was featured on the front cover of the 1989 Texas single ‘I Don’t Want A Lover’.
The vintage guitar, which is valued at more than £3000 / €3760, has a coil tap switch on the lower horn and had the machine heads replaced with locking ones. It went missing backstage at a charity concert in Battersea Park in 2012.
I didn’t worry immediately as I was optimistically hoping that it would turn up…that someone would realise that they had picked it up by mistake and that it would make its way back to me. After all this time it still hasn’t surfaced. It is priceless to me, I would love to find it so am hoping that someone will recognise it from the pictures and return it to me” said Ally.
McErlaine’s latest project with alt-country trio, Red Sky July, will see the band release their second album ‘Shadowbirds’ on 15 September and will be touring in August with Steve Earle and with Sheryl Crow in October.
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Texas guitarist and Red Sky July member, Ally McErlaine, is appealing for help to find a lost guitar. Ally was given the mid-1970s Gibson ES 335 Sunburst when he joined Texas aged 17 and he has played it on every album by the band and on all their tours.
The guitar was featured on the front cover of the 1989 Texas single ‘I Don’t Want A Lover’.
The vintage guitar, which is valued at more than £3000 / €3760, has a coil tap switch on the lower horn and had the machine heads replaced with locking ones. It went missing backstage at a charity concert in Battersea Park in 2012.
McErlaine’s latest project with alt-country trio, Red Sky July, will see the band release their second album ‘Shadowbirds’ on 15 September and will be touring in August with Steve Earle and with Sheryl Crow in October.
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