Musings

RIP to Billy “The Kid” Emerson, the oldest living Sun Recording Artist. December 20, 1925-April 25, 2023. The fact that Emerson was still alive until today is mind-blowing enough…

This is a 1965–66 era R.C. Allen electric guitar made by Dick Allen in El Monte, California. This was a model he was trying to mass-produce at the time, although best estimates are that he only made around forty of these.

Spent the afternoon at the Country Music Hall of Fame with Jody Maphis and Kyle Eldridge, getting photos for the Fretboard Journal article that I will be writing about Kyle’s new doubleneck guitar.

Well, lookee what showed up yesterday! Big thanks to Jeremy Darby up in Canada for helping me procure this RCA BK-10A microphone from the legendary microphone guru Doug Walker, who recently decided to sell his collection.

Kyle Eldridge will be receiving his new doubleneck TNM Custom guitar from Terry McArthur (Jody Maphis is going to be there, too!).

He found out I was a guitar player, and we talked about jazz guitar giant Kenny Burrell. Somehow the subject of Miles Davis came up…

The beginning of the Mos-Rite guitar company, 1955: Semie Moseley, gifted teenage guitarist, performs as part of Reverend Ray Boatright’s Pentacostal Gospel Crusade.

Jerry Case toured and recorded with the very last version of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He’s lived out here in the San Fernando Valley for the last thirty-five years, and none of us knew it.

Emir had never been to Bakersfield, and he loves the Bakersfield-sound country stuff, so we hopped in the car and drove up. We did a lot of stuff in a few hours!!

The Whippersnappers and I got to the top of Dobbins Lookout in South Phoenix just before sunset, hoping to shoot some photos in the archway to use for artwork on our next album.