Susan Tedeschi is fresh off the release of her , which arrived last week. However, she doesn't shy away from addressing the need for more representation in the guitar world, particularly the gender gap in the market. “I think they should have made a signature model 20 years ago for Sue Foley,” she says in an upcoming interview.
“She’s a badass guitar player who always played a Pink Paisley and that was one of the reasons that I went with a Tele.” Tedeschi also points out that when she was an emerging guitarist, “it would have been very inspirational had there been greater female representation in the guitar market. “I think it’s also important for women to know that you can play an electric guitar, because so many times you’ll start on an acoustic – and sometimes the acoustic is harder to play than an electric, but you don’t realize that,” she adds.
Elsewhere in the interview, Tedeschi reveals how her signature model came about. “They approached me and it was perfect timing, what with the 25th anniversary of [last year]. It took about two years to go through the whole process.
” “The idea came about to make it like my American Standard Tele, but with a couple of little perks here and there to make it special and to make it as close to mine as possible. I worked with a guy named Stephen Taylor from Fender, as well as Patrick Harberd. They both were instrumental in making this happen.
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