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"With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time"
texasmonthly: Because every good man needs a sidekick. Read more about the life of Trigger and watch a cool little documentary about one of the most famous guitars in the world. Photograph by Wyatt McSpadden.

texasmonthly:

Because every good man needs a sidekick. Read more about the life of Trigger and watch a cool little documentary about one of the most famous guitars in the world.

Photograph by Wyatt McSpadden.

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Trigger is Willie, Willie is Trigger

“One of the secrets to my sound is almost beyond explanation. My battered old Martin guitar, Trigger, has the greatest tone I’ve ever heard from a guitar […] If I picked up the finest guitar made this year and tried to play my solos exactly the way you heard them on the radio or even at last night’s show, I’d always be a copy of myself and we’d all end up bored. But if I play an instrument that is now a part of me, and do it according to the way that feels right for me […] I’ll always be an original.”

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"I have come to believe we were fated for each other. The two of us even look alike. We are both pretty battered and bruised."
Willie Nelson on his guitar “Trigger”
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For more than 40 years Willie Nelson has been playing a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic guitar he named “Trigger,” after Roy Rogers’ horse. A classical guitar designed with no pick-guard, the famous relic has developed a distinctive gaping hole in the body. “When Trigger goes, I’ll quit,” Nelson once said.

For more than 40 years Willie Nelson has been playing a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic guitar he named “Trigger,” after Roy Rogers’ horse. A classical guitar designed with no pick-guard, the famous relic has developed a distinctive gaping hole in the body. “When Trigger goes, I’ll quit,” Nelson once said.

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