Fender Jaguar on your song , “ I Need a Ghost ”, from the July 2020 , House of Miracles release . Please tell us about your guitar preferences , both electric and acoustic .
[ Brandon ] Okay . The Fender Jaguar is my buddy ' s guitar that I borrowed , and I just thought it looks so stinking cool . I just love to play that thing whenever it ' s around . And honestly , I ' ve been guilty of just borrowing a lot of different guitars from friends . And then finally , I was in the studio with Matt Maher , and we were doing some writing , and I looked over and there ' s this Gretsch Broadkaster .
And I picked it up , and I ' d had a Country Gentleman for a little while , and then had to sell it . And I ' ve missed it , I ' ve regretted selling that guitar ever since . And so , I looked over and there ' s this Broadkaster . It ' s the perfect Gretsch Guitar for the worship leader who isn ' t doing a whole lot of lead playing , because it doesn ' t have the Bigsby , so it stays in tune really , well . And the Bigsby ' s not in the way . It ' s a perfect rhythm guitar , but it still has that Gretsch , that big body sound .
And so I picked it up and said , " Bro , can I please play this for my live record ? It ' s coming up ." I
I Need a Ghost actually played that on the record , and then I loved it so much that I ' ve hit up somebody at Gretsch and was like , " I ' ve got to get ahold of one of these guitars ." And for months , there wasn ' t one laying around , they couldn ' t find one . I ' d look on Reverb . com , I ' d look online every-once-in-a while but couldn ' t really find it . And then one day , I think Mike from Gretsch hit me up again and was like , " Hey , I ' ve got literally one of those things . It ' s here in my office ." And so , I snagged that thing , and it ' s my only , and my favorite electric !
And then my acoustic guitar , I play a Larrivée . I think it ' s an OM-40 , or OM-80 , or something like that , and it ' s this beautiful kind of tobacco burst matte finish . That was a gift from when I was moving from Virginia back to Charleston . A lot of the volunteers that I led at the church and