Guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell are perhaps best known for being members of Southern rock jam band JJ Grey & Mofro. But, for the last 15 years, the duo has also been playing together as Greyhounds, where they let their love for blues and soul shine through.

Greyhounds are now signed to Ardent Records, the storied Memphis record label. The Greyhounds’ first release on the new label is 2014’s Accumulator. For this Fretboard Journal session, they decided to play a stripped-down and funky version of “Yeah Yeah Yeah” from the album.

We knew right away that Trube was not a typical FJ subject when he told us he’s had a longstanding policy of never paying more than $100 for a guitar. “This guy here is bad to the bone,” he said, pointing to his battle-scarred Silvertone archtop. “I’ve got a whole room filled with cheap guitars that are apparently now worth something… and some of them still aren’t worth anything. That wasn’t what it was about for me. [Growing up] there was no way I could even get an $800 guitar and even think about it. That’s how my love affair started.

“Where I grew up in East Texas, my friend Kelly Barber has a store called Action Sound [in Hawkins, Texas]. You have to go in there and know him and ask to see what’s up and he’ll take you in the back. They would get in this kind of guitar and nobody wanted it, everyone wanted Kramers and shredder stuff,” Trube says. “I started noticing that these would pile up behind the counter.”