Eric Church can now have his pick of guitars, but his first one came from a pawn shop with a price tag of about $75. He got a book of guitar chords to go along with it as he taught himself to play.

"It was about just trying to figure it out," Eric says in a Q&A with Gibson.com. "At the time, I was playing some songs and hearing melodies, but I had no avenue to get songs out. I just started tip-toeing into it."

Now Eric and everyone in his band plays Gibson guitars, but he insists that is just a coincidence.

Says Eric, "We all came from different areas, and those guys have been playing forever, and that’s what they’ve always played!"

Catch Eric and his band and their Gibson's out on tour HERE.

It takes talent to teach yourself how to play an instrument.  No way I could do that...unless its the triangle.  I could so conquer that! ;)

~Vanessa