Marty Stuart is no slouch himself, and it was sure a good day when he hired this second guitar player to join the band. The fellow with the glasses is Kenny Vaughn. I'd never heard of any of them until ten minutes ago.
Kenny is interviewed on a great (recent) video about working with Marty during this period. The great part was him describing the reaction of the Letterman band to their sound check. Kenny says they were all looking around the floor near the amps, checking the backs of the amps, looking everywhere to see where that sound was coming from. The two Letterman guitar players asked Kenny, "where's your pedals?" Kenny told them, "we don't use any. We just plug right into the amps."
They were using, and Kenny still uses, Fender Princeton and Deluxe Reverb amps from the early 1970s. They switch out the original speakers for top of the line Altecs. My opinion has always been tone comes from the strings, the wood, your fingers, the pick-ups, and the amp, not necessarily in that order. I'm not knocking the guys who use pedals and racks, but then it all sounds like a whole 'nuther thing.
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