Jessica Lea Mayfield

What kind of guitar is it?

It’s a Gretsch Baritone, which I just love. It’s real low; it sounds like Satan’s basement. [Laughs.] That’s what made me fall in love with it. I was just like, “Oh, this guitar is so cool.” I found it at the Guitar Emporium in Louisville, Kentucky, for $420. I just had to come home with it. I wasn’t real big on buying a lot of gear then — and now it’s what’s most important to me. I used to go buy clothes and makeup and all that stuff, and now I’m always trying to have money for the gear. If I buy something new or even used, I gotta save up my money for whatever old piece of broken gear I want to buy [laughs].

"Excess and obsession are two phases I go through with everything I like in my life. Two years ago, I bought my first guitar pedal. It was an Electro Harmonix Memory Boy."

In a photo from Magnetmagazine, Jessica Lea Mayfield's Electro-Harmonix POG2 Polyphonic Octave Generator is visible among her collection of pedals, highlighting her use of this harmonizer and octave effects pedal in her setup.