J. J. Cale's Signed Dobro Guitar

c. late-1950s.

Dobro is a type of guitar developed in the 1920s by John Dopyera, a Czech-born owner of a musical instrument repair shop in Los Angeles. The name originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company. "Dobro" is both a contraction of "Dopyera brothers" and a word meaning "goodness" in their native Slovak.

J.J Cale (1938 - 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he avoided the limelight, his influence as a musical artist have been widely acknowledged by figures such as Mark Knopfler, Neil Young and Eric Clapton, who described him as "one of the most important artists in the history of rock."

From the Simmons Blues Collection.

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