This allows bass strings to have a slightly looser tension and treble strings to have a higher tension while still retaining the Casino’s personality. For the first time in the history of the Casino, Epiphone and Dwight Yoakam collaborated to give the “Dwight Trash” Casino a Beveled Reverse Firebird™ style headstock. Now, thanks to Dwight’s incredible attention to detail and quality, and through special arrangement with Epiphone Japan, the Limited Edition Elitist Dwight Yoakam “Dwight Trash” Casino Outfit gives longtime Casino fans some new and startlingly original features while keeping the Casino’s legendary sound just as you remember it.īreaking New Ground: But it’s at the headstock where the “Dwight Trash” breaks news ground. Yoakam’s classic cover of Johnny Horton’s “Honky Tonk Man” featured an acoustic guitar solo-not something you hear everyday! Since then, Dwight has been known to turn up the volume on stage, often using Casinos in his live act and in the studio. Guitars, Cadillac’s, and Casinos! Dwight Yoakam fans know the Kentucky native is a serious rhythm guitar player as well as a hit singer, songwriter, and actor. So together, in collaboration with Dwight and Epiphone’s design team, we bring you a Casino that is just like Dwight’s music, a breakthrough combination of a familiar tune with a whole new groove, the Limited Edition Elitist Dwight Yoakam “Dwight Trash” Casino. We’ve known all along that Dwight was a big fan of the Epiphone Casino. Limited Edition Elitist Dwight Yoakam “Dwight Trash” Casino Outfit! Dwight Yoakam’s combination of Bakersfield country and Mersey Beat pop brought rockers to country and honky tonk to pop music with smash hits like “Guitars, Cadillac’s,” “Fast As You,” “Little Sister,” and “Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose.” Dwight broke out of the incredible Los Angeles country punk scene in the early 80s with a dash of Buck Owens, a dash of Beatles, and a whole new attitude that shook up country and rock and roll.

Gibson P-90 pickups supply all the twang and snarl you'll need. The 5-ply laminated maple body has a SlimTaper mahogany neck. Dwight Yoakam’s signature is on the back of each headstock. Lead players who love to play melody lines on the low strings will have a deep, articulate twang while still maintaining the chiming, bell-like treble tones the Casino is known for.

This allows bass strings to have a slightly looser tension and treble strings to have a higher tension.

The groove on the the Limited Edition Elitist Dwight Yoakam “Dwight Trash” Casino literally starts with a Beveled Reverse Firebird-style headstock – a Casino first.

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