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Here is everything you need to sound like Albert King: The Flying V Throughout his career, Albert King almost exclusively used a Gibson Flying V, or a variation on the Flying V. He played 3 main guitars - a 1959 Gibson V, a bespoke made V nicknamed 'Lucy' and later a mid 1960s V.

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Such is the case with an original 1958 Gibson Korina Flying V, recently purchased by Joe Bonamassa for his Three Kings tour, which honors blues legends Freddie King, B.B. King and Albert King, who favored the Flying V. One of the Great White Whales of the guitar world, the original run of Korina Flying Vs hold a mythic place among collectors.

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A Flying V pioneer who inspired Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, Albert King was king of the blues - find out why with this lesson in his vocal playing style By Phil Short ( Guitar Techniques ) published 11 September 2023

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In typical McCarty "take no prisoners" fashion, he made a series of bold moves that resulted in the development of several of the most desirable and valuable electric guitar models of all time, including the sunburst Les Paul Standard, ES-335, Explorer and Flying V, all of which made their debut in 1958.

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The '59 Gibson Flying V made famous by Albert King (left), along with the "Lucy" guitar built by Dan Erlewine in the early 1970s, and the mid-'60s Flying V King played extensively after his '59 V was lost. Photos by Rick Gould.

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One guitar featured on the tour was actually owned and played by Albert King: a custom-made Flying V-style guitar nicknamed Lucy, on loan from actor Steven Seagal. According to Bonamassa, this was the Lucy that Albert played for most of the '70s and '80s. "Dan Erlewine built it for him in 1972," Bonamassa says. "It's a little unruly to play.

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Watch Joe Bonamassa Play Blues Legend Albert King’s Flying V Flipboard

Albert King, whose 100th birthday it was just a fortnight ago, famously played Flying V guitars. And here you can watch Joe Bonamassa play the very same custom-built Flying V owned and played by King himself.

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Albert King was one of those lucky owners, born under a bad sign or not. He had a 1959 Flying V, a right-handed one, which, just like Jimi Hendrix after him, he played upside down. He may have been playing the space-age guitar, but he was a bluesman's bluesman through and through.

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His fellow blues practitioner Albert King was another who started using a Flying V soon after they came into that limited circulation, and he called his Lucy, in answer to B.B. King's Lucille.

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By Alan di Perna published 25 April 2023 A left-hander, King flipped a right-handed guitar upside down, put it in an unorthodox tuning, and forged a style steeped in steely drama and epic bends (Image credit: Andrew Putler/Redferns) This story originally appeared in the March/April 2013 issue of Guitar Aficionado magazine.

The History of the Gibson Flying V

Albert King is synonymous with the Gibson Flying V - he played a 1959 model, and then a mid-'60s model when that guitar was lost. From 1972 onwards he played a custom guitar based on a Flying V named 'Lucy', which was built by Dan Erlwine.