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Friday, April 11, 2003 THE BATTALIO
Trigger' happn
Willie Nelson’s guitar, ‘Trigger,’ ages
gracefully with its famous owner
By Isaac Guzman
KRT CAMPUS
NEW YORK — After more than 30 years of
constant use, Willie Nelson's guitar looks about
as well-worn as its owner, who has strummed a
hole through its top and burnished the wood to an
amber glow.
Nelson and the 1969 Martin six-string he's nick
named Trigger traded licks with Eric Clapton at the
Beacon Theatre Tuesday, rehearsing Wednesday
night's concert celebrating the Texan’s 70th birth
day on April 30.
As Clapton effortlessly drew warm, electrified
runs from his Fender Stratocaster, Nelson and his
nylon-stringed companion gamely
answered with a gentler sound that
delivered its urgency through
Nelson's singular rhythmic and
melodic sensibility.
Where Clapton soared on the
song “Night Life,” Nelson put
together quick, percussive runs.
When Clapton's guitar moaned.
Trigger was as smooth and sin
cere as its owner's whiskey-
soaked voice. Nelson has known
“Night Life” even longer than
his guitar — he co-wrote it in
1959, and its sale helped estab
lish his career in Nashville.
“Eric is as good as they get,”
Nelson said. “He was hot. There's
just some great talent here. And
the fact that they all wanted to
come here this week and wanted to help me cele
brate my birthday is just overpowering, really.”
At least one of the guest stars, Kris
Kristofferson, has his name engraved into Trigger's
spruce top.
Kristofferson, Nelson's bandmate in the
Highwaymen, is in good company. The guitar has
become something of an autograph book for
Nelson. The first signer was honky-tonk key
boardist Leon Russell, and he's since added such
country stars as Roger Miller, Gene Autry, Johnny
Cash and Waylon Jennings.
“It started out with Leon Russell wanting me to
sign his guitar,” Nelson says. “And I started to just
write it on there, and he said, T want you to scratch
it on there with a ballpoint pen or a knife or some
thing.* And l said. ‘Why?’And he said, ‘Because
it'll stay in there and make it more valuable.’Sol
said, ‘OK, in that case, sign mine.’”
Over the years. Trigger has seen so much
action that it now needs regular repair workio
straddle the line between shabby chic andaioi
shambles. In Nashville, insiders says, there'si
running joke that the guitar and its owner haw
become indistinguishable.
"There's a lot of pictures showing Willie and
his guitar over the years,” says George Gruhn,a
respected vintage guitar dealer in Nashville.
“When (Trigger) was new, Willie was clean-cm
and wearing a sweater. They progressively get
more scruffy-looking as time goes by. I can'll®
ly imagine anything else in the
industry like it.”
Even if Trigger is no longen
the top of its game, the instru
ment has joined Nelson on a
remarkable musical journey.
While Nelson's image has
remained that of a highlands hipp
complete with braids and bandan
his music has continued to seeks
new territory.
“At the height of his career,
Willie Nelson was an outlaw and
still an outlaw now, in the sens
that he refused to behave, musici
ly, in accordance with anyone's
expectations.” says Jay Orr, set®
museum editor at Nashville's
Country Music Hall of Fame.
“He sets an example as somea
who has refused to be confined by stylistic bouit
aries, even as he remains rooted in Texas and in
country music. He's totally open.”
Just about the only constants in Nelson'ssouit
are the gentle tone of his quavering, nasal voice
and the subtle pluck of Trigger.
The guitar earned its name for being such a
faithful sidekick. “I was always a big Roy Roger
fan, and Trigger was his horse, so I started call:
it that, and it caught on,” Nelson says. “You to
B.B. (King) has Lucille. I've got Trigger.”
But King calls any guitar that comes into his
possession Lucille. After all these years, there's®
only one Trigger. And only one man who know
how to coax something so beautiful out of suclii
ragged old wreck.
When (Trigger)
was new, Willie
was clean-cut and
wearing a sweater.
They p r ogress i vely
get more scruffy-
looking as time
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goes by.
— George Gruhn
guitar dealer in Nashville
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