Judy Collins

Judy Collins regularly performs with her signature guitar.

In this article on the Martin museum on Martins website, you can see that in one of the museum cases is a D12-35 played by Judy. From the article: “Earlier in her career, Judy Collins was very fond of the D-18. In fact, she even played one at the open house for Martin’s new Sycamore Street factory when it opened in 1964. Eventually, her focus shifted toward Martin 12-string models, mostly the D12-35, and this model became the guitar she was most associated with. When Martin decided to honor Collins with her own signature edition models, it was both 6- and 12-string Style 35 Dreadnoughts they chose. This model was owned by Collins for nearly 40 years before Martin Guitar acquired it for their museum collection.“

In this article on the Martin website about the Martin Museum it says that Judy was very fond of the D-18.

From the article about her D12-35 that mentioned her love of the D-18:

“Earlier in her career, Judy Collins was very fond of the D-18. In fact, she even played one at the open house for Martin’s new Sycamore Street factory when it opened in 1964. Eventually, her focus shifted toward Martin 12-string models, mostly the D12-35, and this model became the guitar she was most associated with. When Martin decided to honor Collins with her own signature edition models, it was both 6- and 12-string Style 35 Dreadnoughts they chose. This model was owned by Collins for nearly 40 years before Martin Guitar acquired it for their museum collection.”