Folk-Star Guitarist Trini Lopez Passes

Trini Lopez, a jazz guitarist who gained fame after shifting genres to re-record folk staples like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Lemon Tree ” at the height of the American folk boom in the early ’60s, died August 11 of complications from Covid 19. He was 83. Born Trinidad López, III to Mexican emigres …

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Fender’s 60th Anniversary Jazz Bass has an alder body and a maple neck with a bound rosewood fingerboard with vintage-correct 7.25” radius, tall frets, bone nut, and a ’60s U profile. Other features include two Pure Vintage ’62 pickups, concentric Volume and Tone controls, lacquer finish in Arctic Pearl, tortoiseshell pickguard, white binding on the …

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