Robert Johnson — Rig Network

Johnson is photographed with a Gibson L-1, a small-body archtop acoustic with steel strings. The L-1's spruce top and ladder-braced construction produce a bright, forward-projecting tone well-suited to the solo recording context. Various period archtops may have been used across the two sessions.

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Various period instruments from Gibson's subsidiary Kalamazoo brand or similar — budget archtops of the 1930s that nonetheless produce the characteristic steel-string brightness of early electric-adjacent acoustic blues.

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