Robben Ford on his blonde 1960 Telecaster

Guitarist recently caught up with the legendary Robben Ford, who told us all about the gorgeous vintage Tele that’s all over his back catalogue: “It’s a ’60. I bought that in a guitar shop in San Francisco called Black Market Music. I really wasn’t looking for it. We just went to a music store, maybe to get strings or something when I was on the road, touring, and I saw the guitar. I thought immediately of Mike Bloomfield, because on one of the Butterfield Blues Band records, there’s a picture of him and