Benny Salter (on the right with his first guitar: a red '56 Fender Stratocaster — in this photo it looks lighter than a red guitar would appear in a black-and-white photograph) fronting the Detroit band The Meteors before heading to the U.K. (around 1960) to form The Tupelos. For the gutsy, landmark solo work on The Tupelos 1965 mega-hit "White Tail Deer" Benny used a 1954 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top.