Jess Carson

This guitar was used on the “Let It Roll” album recording sessions -you can hear it soloed on the intro to “21st Century Honky Tonk American Band” plugged straight into my 1958 Fender Princeton. It's the greatest playing and sounding SG I’ve ever laid hands on.

This was the guitar that Cameron, Mark, and I were passing back and forth when we first came up with the idea to form Midland.

I bought it because I wanted a smaller-sized acoustic to travel with to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for Cameron's wedding. I got there about a week before the wedding and Mark had also arrived early. The three of us swapped songs on the porch of Cameron’s mother-in-law’s house. We performed with it at the rehearsal dinner talent show, which we lost.

I bought the guitar from Musicmakers in South Austin, where now-Midland-guitar-player Luke Cutchen was the sales associate! Buying this guitar was how I met Luke and eventually started playing music with him.

So if there is a guitar at the center of the DNA of this band, this is certainly it. It still has my return flight airline tag on the case.

This is my favorite Princeton clone. I have been buying Princeton's on the road for about the past three years and while this amp blows a lot of vintage Princeton's away, I just can't seem to part with the old ones. These are great for recording or gigging. I used this in my home studio and it's all over early versions and demos of Midland songs. In excellent condition.

"I purchased this pedal from a small-town guitar shop in Australia while on tour with Tim McGraw." -Jess Carson on Reverb.com

According to an article by Mike Duffy on the official Fender website, Jess Carson used the Fender American Original '60s Telecaster during a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.