By now, Gibson was the market leader among American guitar makers. At the end of ’35, the Kalamazoo firm introduced the EH-150 steel and amp set, its first foray into electric instruments.
“They only made 20 of them at the time. I used that one on ‘Memphis’ and I still use it today.” So said Lonnie Mack in 1968, five years after his Top 5 US hit with that great track, which ...