The "bread crumb trails" often lead Johnson to tune the paired strings on his 12-string guitars to intervals other than octaves or unisons. On "Mother's Day," for example, Johnson tuned his TayiorW65 to E-D A-A, E-E. F#-F#, A-B, D-E (low to high).For "Sweet Jane Time," his Tayior 855 was tuned to E-C. G-G.D-D, G-G, B-B, D-D. Both guitars are strung with GHS white bronze strings, gauged .013-.056.