What guitar is Brian playing here?

What guitar is Brian playing in this video?

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=XNskCCbRXaw

Looks like a Tennessean with one pick up.

I'm sure someone (like TV ) could elaborate a little more on this guitar

Its a Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose

Brian is also posing with the guitar inside the inlay sleeve of the Rockabilly Riot album.



Cheers PP

Thats one cool geeetaarrr man ye

wow, Patrick, thank you for that Christmas present, wow

the guitar I'm pretty sure is a Gretsch G6119-1959 Chet Atkins..

In 1958, the Fred Gretsch Company decided to expand the successful Chet Atkins signature guitar line introduced in 1954, which already included the Chet Atkins Hollowbody 6120 and the Chet Atkins Solidbody 6121. The new models were the high-end Country Gentleman and the low-end Tennessean.

The Chet Atkins Tennessean was a stripped down version of the 6120. It shared the same body dimensions, but had only one bridge pickup and no binding on the fingerboard or headstock. The Tennessean also had a unique red stain finish instead of the orange of the 6120. The pickguard with Chet’s signature in a signpost was black instead of the gold color seen on the 6120.

The features on this example are common to other Tennesseans produced in late ’59 and early ’60, including the zero fret, “Patent Applied For” FilterTron pickup, “V” cutout Gretsch Bigsby vibrato and a body depth of about 2 1/2”. Except for a gradually thinning body, these appointments remained until 1962, when Gretsch’s entire line was revamped.






..and of course one of my rock heroes, Bono:

Hey Pirate Paul, thats a great picture. Thanks for this. This is actually one of my Favorite Gretsch models. Striped to the bone, one pickup. Love it. He uses it all over the Rockabilly Riot Album and really gets a variety of tones with this. Thanks for the pix and I didn't realize Bono was into it. My wife loves U2 and it is her favorite band. (I will use this to try and position myself to having one.)

So thanks for that also.