Bill Frisell returns to the Fretboard Journal to perform Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust.”

On this track, Bill is playing his heavily modified Fender Telecaster through a Carr Sportsman amplifier.

This guitar is truly a community build: It features a T.K. Smith-wound neck pickup (which changed since his last session here with this same guitar), a Seymour Duncan Little ’59 bridge pickup; a Mastery bridge; and a T.K. Smith pickguard.

The custom art is by Terry Turrell. The finish and assembly were done by JW Black. The neck plate and additional setup was done by Eric Daw, but NYC’s Tom Crandall – recently featured in the Fretboard Journal’s 54th issue – has also done setup work on it.

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