Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Neko Case is no stranger to readers of this magazine. After all, she appeared in the first two issues of the Fretboard Journal. In our debut 2005 issue, she interviewed Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers for us. In the very next issue, we featured her as a cover subject, talking about her love for tenor guitars.

Though Case has primarily played guitars of the four-string variety, over the years she has also accumulated a few six-string gems. She recently decided to auction one of her most valued guitars, a 1960 Epiphone Texan, to help support Catamount Arts, a non-profit organization supporting the arts in her home state of Vermont.

The Texan was used quite a bit on her amazing 2006 album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. And Case claims, “It sounds and plays like honey.” The auction website and more information can be found here, with bidding ending on November 17, 2012.

You can read Neko Case’s interview with Charlie Louvin here.

You can read Jason Verlinde’s article about Neko and her tenor guitars here.