Junior Barnard was a pioneering American electric guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

ist. He is best known for his work with Bob Wills

Bob Wills

James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...

 and his Texas Playboys. He is among the first electric guitarists to create a guitar effect that anticipated the later "fuzz tone (the strength of his picking induced some slight "overdrive" in the low-power amplifiers typical of the times).

External links

• Junior Barnard page
• Junior Barnard site

See also

• Bob Wills
  Bob Wills
  James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
  
  
• Western swing
  Western swing
  Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands...