Leon Thomas III

In this article, Leon Thomas talks about his Gibson J-45, saying:

Man, I love Gibson. They just do it right. I own about 10 guitars. I play Gibsons on stage, but the J45 is more for when I’m writing. I’m not really a good guitar player, I’ll admit it, but it’s a great tool to write songs. It helps me just bring out what’s in my head. When I went out to Houston to do a little writing session with Khruangbin, we initially wrote one or two jams. But post-session, I pulled out the J45 to mess around with some songs. Something just really clicked after that, so we scheduled some more time to get in there and went on to record “Texas Sun,” one of the singles on our new EP of the same name. It was a really beautiful experience. I’ve always been a fan of Khruangbin, so to just pull out my J45, play something I was working on with a band I really admire, and have it turn out to be something so special and funky and soulful was pretty amazing. I still think about it now, and I’m like, “That was so cool.”