Used Guitars

Used Guitars is an album by the American musician Marti Jones, released in 1988. Jones supported the album by playing shows that included many of the album's guest musicians. The album was a commercial disappointment, and A&M Records dropped Jones shortly after its release.

Production
Recorded over five weeks in Charlotte, North Carolina, the album was produced by Don Dixon. Jones described Used Guitars as a concept album about women discussing the nature of love. Marshall Crenshaw, the Uptown Horns, and Mitch Easter contributed to the album.

Jones and Dixon cowrote three of the album's songs. Janis Ian wrote two songs. "Each Time" is a cover of the Jackie DeShannon song. Sonny Landreth played dobro on "If I Can Love Somebody". "Tourist Town" is about a squabble with a boyfriend.

Critical reception
The Washington Post wrote that Jones "still isn't really an interpretive, emotive singer, [but] has a distinctive sound and has never appeared so confident and risk-taking." The Philadelphia Inquirer praised Jones's "crystalline vocal testimony." The New York Times opined that Jones "has one of those flexible, innately emotional voices that, with only the most minor adjustments in inflection, can accommodate rock, country, pop-soul and sophisticated torch music with equal facility."

The Ottawa Citizen concluded that "Jones twists folk music into the new shapes necessary to make it a pertinent music form again." The Houston Chronicle deemed Jones "a spooky cross between Dusty Springfield and Joni Mitchell." Robert Christgau regarded the Graham Parker cover to be the album's best song. The Kingston Whig-Standard considered the album to be among the best of 1988.

Track listing
Side one

Side two