Musings

Farewell to Quincy Jones, who passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-one.

A long, long time ago, before the internet, I found a vintage Coricidin pill bottle at a yard sale for a dime. I knew that Duane Allman had famously used one as a slide…

I’m so excited about this new Untamed Youth album! This morning, Tony Andreason of the Trashmen overdubbed a guitar solo on a Trashmen-inspired version of the Jerry Lee Lewis song “I’m on Fire.”

The jury is still out whether this is an actual Frank Gay instrument or a copy. But it’s a really cool and weird bit of hillbilly guitar history.

From the upcoming Mosrite book that I’m working on: Here’s the “real” story behind the surfboard-shaped guitars and basses that are always referred to as the Strawberry Alarm Clock guitars.

A couple years ago, I stumbled on a 1958 newspaper article describing a Cedar Rapids hillbilly performer named Joe Cihla and his new invention: the Speakatar.

Here’s your guitar rabbit hole for the day! I was going through some old CD-Rs yesterday and found this great photo of “Little” Jimmy Dickens on stage in the early 1960s…

This place is absolutely incredible. The hotel was built in 1946 and they did a restoration on it that is one of the best I’ve ever seen.

If you’re a country music fan, and a Lefty Frizzell fan, The One and Only Lefty Frizzell is an enjoyable listen but a real mixed bag.

I haven’t bought much new gear in the last few years unless it just falls in my lap and the price is right. This month has been pretty cool in that regard…