In an interview Clapton recalled how the photo of Freddie King playing a Les Paul on the cover of the album Freddie King Sings The Blues inspired him to purchase a Les Paul. ...I went out after seeeing that cover and scoured the guitar shops and found one. That was my guitar from then on, and it sounded like Freddie King. It had everything: it was it. But Freddie's particular model, I've never seen. It looks like a Les Paul Standard but it hasn't got a sunburst top. If you check the album cover out, it's the weirdest looking beaten-up Les Paul ever...
In a recent interview with Neville Marten for Guitarist, Lee Dickson said of this guitar "...[Eric] picked it up and messed around with it but I don't think he particularly took to it. It was used, though, and I always thought it would make a great slide guitar..."