Willie Nelson has entertained audiences since he was 13 years old, and through the decades his guitar Trigger has become almost as famous as he is. Nelson met the nylon string Martin guitar in after a drunk destroyed his last guitar. He wanted an instrument that could help him get a sound more like Django Reinhardt — his biggest musical influence. The story almost ended before it began. The house burning down seemed like a sign, and Nelson and Trigger moved from Nashville to Texas to play honky-tonk clubs. He had done well as a songwriter for others, but his solo career had yet to take off. Texas offered another climate for musicians, and Nelson was a success. In Texas he could push the boundaries and experiment with his music. There are instruments older than Trigger, but few guitars have logged as many playing hours in a lifetime, and Nelson plays hard.

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Trigger is the Martin N nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Early in his career, Nelson tested several guitars by different companies. After his Baldwin guitar was damaged in , he purchased the Martin guitar, but retained the electrical components from the Baldwin guitar.
Willie Nelson is a man of surprises. In place of the obligatory pear-monogrammed steel-string, Shotgun Wilie packs a Martin short-scale N classical guitar, one of perhaps only ever built. In country circles, let alone the string music world at large, Martin classicals are about as common as Porsche limosines. In the soundboard, a ragged gash extends from near the lower quadrant of the soundhole rosette down almost to the treble end of the bridge saddle. Classical guitars traditionally do not have pickguards.