I just got back from Texas. What a great trip! The AmeriPolitan Weekend was amazing—what a party! It was exhausting but totally worth it.
For those of you wondering what I did the last couple of days when I drove out into the Texas Hill Country, I’m happy to report that I returned home with all of the surviving official Mosrite Guitar Company photos, paperwork, records, and ephemera, which was generously loaned to me by the Moseley family.
I’ve been on this hunt for close to ten years, while I had the faintest idea that I might write a Mosrite book in the future. It’s quite a long story, involving the transfer of these photos from Bakersfield to Nashville and finally in a storage shed quite a distance outside Bandera, Texas. At one point I thought they were lost. I’m really grateful that they were preserved, and that the family trusted me enough to loan me these materials for my book.
I’ll give you just a little tease—photos of Semie and Andy Moseley in the 1950s, photos of the guitar factory in Bakersfield in the 1960s, tons of interesting paperwork and letters and things that were believed to be lost. Turns out, they were just waiting to be discovered, like it was meant to be. It was a good adventure.
I kept saying to myself that if I couldn’t locate these official company photos and paperwork, I couldn’t write the Mosrite book. Now that this step has been achieved, it’s full steam ahead!
But first, man—I have to rest for a couple of days. Oof, am I tired!
