List of Telecaster players

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Fender Telecaster 50th Anniversary Edition

Telecaster players are musicians known for playing the Telecaster, an electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Also included are musicians associated with the similar Broadcaster and the Esquire guitars.

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Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of this instrument was especially significantthat is, they are players with long careers who have a history of faithful Telecaster use, or the particular guitar they used was unique or of historical importance, or their use of the Telecaster contributed significantly to the popularization of the instrument.

Esquire players are here listed alongside players of the more famous Telecaster, since Fender regards it as part of the "family of Telecaster guitars". [1] While the one-pickup Esquire has been marketed as a separate model from the two-pickup Telecaster (which was originally named the Broadcaster) since its reintroduction in 1951, the Esquire and Telecaster are so intimately linked in their development and history, and so similar in design and tonal characteristics, that they are considered variations of the same model.

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Bill Frisell
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood playing a Telecaster Plus in 2016 Jonny Greenwood 2016.jpg
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood playing a Telecaster Plus in 2016
Merle Haggard in 2013 Merle Haggard in concert 2013 - 2.jpg
Merle Haggard in 2013
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Waylon Jennings in 1965

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Greg Koch playing one of his Fender Telecasters in 2018

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Keith Richards

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