Hozier's Guitars

In the source video provided it shows Hozier playing a Black Epiphone Broadway. This model is not listed as a production unit but it was made for the artist and Hozier even addresses it in the twitter exchange below.

https://twitter.com/hozier/status/491184829451739137

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Seen at 15:56 and is described as being his main acoustic guitar.

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Hozier can be seen using this Harmony H78 guitar regularly and in this video of him at the BBC Live Lounge.

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"Soulful Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, better known simply as Hozier, has been enjoying a pair of Taylor acoustics as of late — a new 816e and a rosewood baritone 6-string"

-Taylor Guitars, (p. 26)

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In this video Hozier is clearly seen playing a very rare Danelectro Resonator guitar.

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Hozier used this guitar at Newport folk festival in June 2014 when he played Skip James' Illinois blues. He also used the guitar in other videos of the same song. he has not used it since his global explosion.

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Hozier can be seen using a standard Fender Stratocaster (Lake Placid Blue finish) at around 4:30 into the video.

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In this video Hozier can be seen using the Gretsch G5265 Jet Baritone for the song Jackie & Wilson.

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Hozier can be seen playing a Fender American Standard Stratocaster HSS at approximately 09:42 in this video, live at KCRW. Hozier's guitar appears to be mystic red with a maple fingerboard.

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The Memphis ES-330 is played regularly on Someone New, featured here in this BBC Big Weekend performance from May 23, 2015.

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Hozier used the Fender FR-48 Steel Resonator on early versions of It Will Come Back. He is playing it on that song in this live video from April 2013, which was recorded several months before his Take Me To Church EP was initially released on Bandcamp. By the time the song was recorded for his album, Hozier had already retired the FR-48 in favour of his Danelectro Resonator. He has not played the FR48 live since 2013.

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Hozier was gifted this guitar by Bohemian Guitars in Atlanta on September 18, 2015. As of November 11, 2015, he has yet to play this guitar live. However, on the song "To Be Alone", he has played two different Bohemians live on tour.

The specs as per Bohemian Guitars: https://www.bohemianguitars.com/jacobson Body: 13" x 7 3/4" x 5" Neck Wood: Maple Neck type: Bohemian Extended Tenon Fretboard: Rosewood Headstock: Red Finish: Oiled Frets: 21 Hardware, Tuners & Bridge: Chrome Pickups: P90, Single Coil, P90 Electronics: Volume, Volume, Ton 3 way toggle switch

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At 17:00 in this video of Hozier at Bonnaroo 2015, he brings out his Bohemian Motor Oil Guitar to play "To Be Alone".

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Hozier Performs "Work Song" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and at :19s you can see him playing a Gibson Memphis Luther Dickinson ES-335.

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The main proof video is of Hozier playing his Bohemian Guitar Vintage Series (Sunoco Mercury) guitar in Los Angeles on October 13, 2015.

He was given this guitar by Bohemian Guitars on on September 18, 2015 in Atlanta (together with the Jacobson vintage shown here: https://www.instagram.com/p/8EbF_rJRMi/?taken-by=hozier).

This Sunoco Mercury has replaced his Bohemian Motor Oil in live performances of To Be Alone. It was first played on stage on October 6, 2015 in Oklahoma City. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeqHxgn-zsw&feature=youtu.be)

The Mercury has double Hubucker pickups and a sapele wood neck with a maple fretboard.

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Hozier used a Gibson 1959 ES-TD in the filming of the music video for Work Song. Unobscured views can be seen at 1:11 and 1:20. He has never played this guitar live (at November 2015)

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A number of photos and videos on Hoziers Instagram showing him playing this unique instrument,

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Hozier has only played this red Eastwood Airline Folkstar once on his live tour (as of November 11, 2015). That was in Kansas City, MO at the Starlight Theater during the song "In A Week."

Specs: http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/airline-folkstar-red/ Body: Tone Chambered Mahogany Pickups: NY Mini Humbucker neck, Piezo bridge Switching: none - Blend Potentiometer Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Blend, 1 Tone Bridge: Biscuit Bridge Single Cone Neck: Maple, Bolt-on Finger Board: Rosewood, Dot Markers, Scale Scale Length: 24 3/4"(628mm) 20 frets Width at the Nut: 1 11/16" Hardware: Grover Style Nickel/Chrome Strings: 12 – 54 Phosphor Bronze Resophonic Guitar

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This website shows Hozier's new Danelectro 59 Resonator, and it shows a video of him playing "Like Real People Do" on it at a concert in Vienna. Hozier Guitars have taken to calling it "Raven".

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In this Instagram reel posted by artist Em Beihold, Hozier can be seen in a photo hanging at the Winston House venue in Venice, CA, playing what appears to be a 2017 or earlier Vintera Deluxe Tele. The headstock is caught in glare and the bottom pickup is a obscured by his hand, but the wood finish and black pickguard suggest that it’s the Deluxe rather than the Custom, or from the ‘72 Classic Series. The performance was live and seemingly impromptu, so it’s possible the guitar was borrowed.

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Playing Epiphone WildKat in this post. Seen playing the guitar often on tour in 2023.

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Hozier is captured using the National Glenwood 95 Vermillion Red during his performance at the Governors Ball in NYC for the song "Francesca," as evidenced by the photograph

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This is a community-built gear list for Hozier.

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