Folk Songs About Guitars

Johnny Cash's "Tennessee Flat Top Box"
richard dobson's "piece of wood and steel"  (also covered by david allen coe)
"Me and My Guitar" - Tony Rice
Brooks Williams, Yellow Hummingbird (Nectar), Signature Sounds
Greg Trooper, Hummingbird (Floating), Sugar Hill
and I can't remember, is Tim Easton's Hummingbird (on Break Your Mother's  
Heart) also about the guitar?
Darrell Scott also has one called "The Hummingbird" on Family Tree.
Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt
How to Play the Guitar by Hank Snow
Luke's song (Twang Twang) by Stompin' Tom Connor  
Guitar Maker - Grit Laskin
You and My Old Guitar -  Jimmie Rodgers
There's a dandy cover version of that on Jorma Kaukonen's "Blue Country
Heart".
Also check out "The D-18 Song" on one of Norman Blake & Tony Rice's CDs, I
think "Blake & Rice 2".
In a slightly different vein, there's "Fender Stratocaster" by Jonathan
Richman. A Fender also gets mentioned tangentially in "Jemima Surrender" by
the Band. Similarly, a Martin gets a mention in the last verse of Norman
Blake's "Church Street Blues".
Does "Steel Guitar Rag" count? It's been recorded by lots of folks, but Bob
Wills' version is still tops in my book.
Cryin' Steel Guitar Waltz - Marty Robbins
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar - Jimmy Buffet
Peter Case "Steel Strings"
This Old Guitar- John Denver
This Old Guitar- Neil Young (not the John Denver song)
La Guitarra- poem by Frederico Garcia Lorca set to music by Steve Gillette
Voice of the Big Guitar- Tish Hinojosa
Guitar Mama- Michael Jerome Browne
Dad's Flattop Guitar- Christopher Shaw
Gamble's Guitar- Michael Smith
Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar- Toasted Westerns
Big Bill's Guitar- Hans Theessink
Guitar Highway- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Red Guitar- Loudon Wainwright III
Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar- Cheryl Wheeler
Slave to a Six-String Guitar- Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith
Let Me Bring My Guitar to Heaven Too- Faith Petric
The Preacher Picked the Guitar- Roy Book Binder, also by Jorma Kaukonen
Kate's Guitar- Greg Brown
Lefty's Old Guitar- J.D. Crowe & the New South
This Guitar- Stephen Fearing
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar- versions by Doc Watson, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, John Jackson,
  Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick, Bob Neuwirth, Jim Mills, Charles River Valley Boys
The Ballad of Martin and Gibson by legendary Toronto singer/songwriter
Rick Speyer, and recorded by him on his Harmony Road CD a few years back.
"A Life in Music" by my friend Robert Morgan Fisher
Russ Rentler "Recycled Tin Man Blues"
Caroline Aiken's excellent song, "My There For Me Guitar", on the Live Bait (1995) CD
On Bill Kirchen's latest "Hammer Of The Honky Tonk Gods" is a paean to
Telecasters. I forget the album it is on but Norman Blake and Tony Rice
sing "Thanks You Mr. Martin."
Jon Shain "Silvertone"
Faith Petric sings called "Let Me Bring My Guitar to Heaven Too" off her "When Did We Have Sauerkraut?

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann