Musings

What a great afternoon! We took a side trip to Alba, Texas, to go hang out with 1950s rockabilly legend Sid King! Sid is 88 years old and still doing great.

My commentary on politics is over. There are a lot of things that will change in this country now. None of them are good.

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

I’ve mostly refrained from political posts this season. It isn’t because I don’t care—I do, very much—but mostly because it seems like this time around, everybody has already made up their mind.

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…