Greg Koch: Gristly “Blues”
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Greg Koch: Gristly “Blues”
Greg Koch fearlessly wrings the sort of vibrato that only a Tele will tolerate from his ’53 to play this...
JMI Vox AC15 “Two-Tone” 1×12″
The permutations of early Vox models remain endlessly fascinating to vintage-amp enthusiasts, and few get us as worked up as a rare transitional version...
Weymann Model 890 Jimmie Rodgers Special
Jimmie Rodgers has been called many things; while active from 1927-’33 he was billed as “the Singing Brakeman” and ”America’s Blue Yodeler” but, in...
Dave Murphy: Acoustic Country!
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Classic Ballad Style
Country/folk/rock singer/guitarist Dave Murphy wrangled guitarist Chris Tarrow for this take on “Josephine,’ from Dave’s new album, “A Heart So Rare.”...
Round-Up Range
Five years ago, I started making a Tele-style guitar inspired by the Gretsch Roundup. When Covid hit, I was up to my ears in...
Samantha Fish: Slide-Blues Fury!
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“I'm Done Runnin’” on a D-18
VG readers know Samantha Fish is the real deal. Here, she uses a Martin D-18 Modern Deluxe on...
Carvin DN440T
One of the few family-owned guitar/amplifier manufacturing enterprises remaining in the industry, Carvin was founded by Lowell Kiesel in 1946 and started by making...
Teisco SD-4L
In an age of rampant globalization, brand names have become virtually independent of place of manufacture. Few people care where something is built, as...
Bud-Electro Serenader Guitars
The Pacific Northwest was home to four obscure brands of early electric guitars – Audiovox, Hanburt, Coppock, and Serenader.
Produced by the Seattle-based Bud-Electro Manufacturing...
Guild S-100NB
Some guitars just don’t seem to be in the right place at the right time. Sometimes they’re close, but no cigar. One good example...