Jonny Lang

At 0:52 in this rig rundown video, Jonny Lang starts talking about his custom Telecaster Thinline. He says, "I switched to Tele Thinlines and somewhere along the line I was lucky enough to have Fender make me one," at 1:28. He mentions that it's a maple top, with a spruce back, and a bird's eye maple neck.

Jonny Lang's 1965 Reissue Fender Deluxe Reverb Amp is talked about starting at 5:55. His guitar tech says, "It looks like a normal Fender amp, but the insides have actually been stripped out and remade to the exact specifications of a 1965 Fender Deluxe. There is some hot rod circuitry in here, to allow one side to be crunchy and one side to be very clean." Jonny Lang has two identical versions of this modified Fender Reverb amp.

For effects, he turned away from an old friend—the Ibanez TS808— and plugged into a Route 66 Overdrive. “They’re similar, but the Route 66 has more headroom.”

Jonny Lang's Tube Dreamer pedal is mentioned at 5:00 in this rig rundown video.

In this video, Jonny is playing his Benedict Custom Bluesmaster, built for him by Roger Benedict of Minneapolis, MN. http://www.benedictguitar.com/cgpg.htm tells the specs of this specific model that are as follows: BluesMaster Designed by and built for Jonny Lang -Spruce body, flame maple top -Maple neck, maple fingerboard with custom pearl inlay -Two vintage humbucking pickups with Seymour Duncan P-90 in the middle -5-way pickup switch with mini-switch to allow all three pickups on at once

At 4:27, Jonny Lang's guitar tech mentions the first pedal on Lang's pedalboard, his Joe Bonamassa Crybaby Wah pedal.

Jonny Lang's guitar tech goes over his pedals in this rig rundown video. At 4:40 he says, "Then it'll go into this custom switcher, to loop all of these pedals. The first loop is the Analogman King of Tone...It's a really nice pedal and it has a great Texas style grit to it."

In this Premier Guitar rig rundown video, at 4:49, Jonny Lang's guitar tech mentions the Route 808 pedal, on Lang's pedalboard.

Jonny Lang's guitar tech points out his Whirlwind The Bomb pedal at around 5:06 in this rig rundown video. He says, "The fourth one is a very subtle boost from Whirlwind just to bring up those little accents in a quiet part."

Jonny Lang talks about a few of his guitars in this Premier Guitar rig rundown. At 2:16 he shows his 1958 Gibson Les Paul Reissue. He says, "I'd never tried Les Pauls before...This was the first one I played and I couldn't believe how good it sounded...it kind of beat all the old Les Pauls."

As Jonny Lang's guitar tech goes through Lang's pedals in this rig rundown video, by Premier Guitar, he mentions Lang's Fulltone Ultimate Octave Pedal, at 5:13.

At 5:18 in this Premier Guitar rig rundown video, Jonny Lang's guitar tech points out Lang's Boss Dynamic Wah Pedal.

At 9:12 in this Premier Guitar rig rundown video, Jonny Lang's guitar tech says, about Lang's Les Paul, "It's strung up with D'Addario EXL110+...D'Addario are great strings."

At 11:23, Jonny Lang's guitar tech says, "It has a really great, heavy, bright sound to it. And it's a fantastic guitar," about Lang's J-40 acoustic guitar.

As Jonny Lang's guitar tech runs down Lang's stage pedals, he mentions his Boss TU-2 Tuner at 4:31.

While talking about Lang's Martin J-40, his guitar tech says, "He's using the D'Addario strings, the model EJ26, which goes from 11 to 52, some good heavy strings on there," at 11:15.

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At the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010, Jonny Lang can be seen using a Planet Waves 3-inch wide Bass Guitar Strap during his performance with Buddy Guy and Ron Wood.

There is no question that Jonny Lang is one of the most authentic blues artists in the modern era and if you're someone like me who has listened their whole life, even if you've just heard the hits, then this should come at no surprise to hear. I have done a bit of tone searching down the Jonny Lang path over the years and thankfully he has stayed pretty consistent for the most part. Rotating essentially the same 3-5 guitars, electric and acoustic alike, and maintaining a pretty straightforward bluesy/overdrive pedal chain setup.

That being said I had only primarily been looking into his electric set up because I have seen him live twice and he maybe played two or three solo acoustic tracks collectively. Listed on his gear page here currently and shown by Jonny himself in rig rundown interviews you'll find he strums a Martin J-40. Which made sense to me, I own a Martin myself and find them to be unmatched for any type of player. So when I discovered a video of him playing a live show with a Gibson J-45 I was intrigued as to why? Both his Martin and this Gibson J-45 have built in pickup configuration, both are on the larger body size and neither with a cutaway, and both run you nothing short of a very pretty penny. I wasn't at this live show in the video I discovered- maybe he popped a string on the Martin and jumped to the Gibson mid show? Or maybe his tastes have just shifted over the years slowly as Gibson has continued reformulating their gravitas in the global guitar community.