Chris Cain (blues)

https://youtu.be/oD5S_DgaVnA?t=191

Chris Cain plays a 1970’s Music Man RD-12 with a EV Speaker. The amp is half tube and half solid state. He doesn’t seem too phased by “the gear side of music” – he just loves to play. He says in the video above “It goes good with that guitar for some reason” which is reason enough to settle on a sound if it works for your style, and it does. If he’s on tour I have seen him play a few amplifiers including a Fender Twin, Fender Super-Reverb, Peavey Bandit, and other Fender combo amplifiers. When he’s in the US you’ll generally see the Music Man RD-12. The tone is great, it’s fairly lightweight, and because he mic’s up his amp for the type of shows he does, it’s generally plenty loud. From what I can tell, he also doesn’t use any Reverb.