Musings

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…

It’s pretty rare that I find a record that I want these days that I don’t already have. But this one arrived today, and I can say that it has filled a hole in my soul that I didn’t know was there before.

Just got this Grammer Merle Haggard model guitar back from an extensive repair/restoration done by Eugene Moles in Nashville, and I’m stoked!

It’s really happening! My old surf and garage band The Untamed Youth will be reuniting this weekend and next weekend for a pair of shows.

Crazy man, crazy! We finally got to do a bit of rock ’n’ roll tourism on this tour.

We got an invite this morning to Well Strung Guitars in Farmingdale, Long Island. Well Strung has been selling off the huge lot of vintage guitars that were at the Songbirds museum in Tennessee, so what you’re seeing in these photos are all vintage guitars, no reissues.