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National Style 3 Hawaiian

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Metal-bodied guitars built by the National String Instrument Company before World War II represent a giant leap in guitar design and technology. When they...

Classics: June 2022

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Like the engineers and musicians who, in the ’60s and ’70s, helped create legendary songs at FAME Studios and its offshoot, Muscle Shoals Sound,...

Dwight Twilley’s ’57 Fender Super

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Plenty of vintage amps have made it into these pages on their own merits. But when a hallowed creation also has a fun artist-related...

1982 Gibson Victory Custom

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When you consider their status as a last-gasp instrument made by Gibson in its waning days as a property of Norlin Industries, the ironically...

John Sebastian & Arlen Roth

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In the ’60s, the Lovin’ Spoonful boasted one of the most impressive song catalogs in rock and roll. During the age of psychedelia and...

Jim Lauderdale’s honkey-tonk toe-dip

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFmNhMDoe8] Singer/Songwriter’s Stylistic Twist Jim Lauderdale paid a visit to one of his favorite Nashville hangs and grabbed a gorgeous 1940 Martin D-28 to play...

Soul-jazz legend Calvin Keys

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gdWmC67mY] Exclusive spin on “Six to Seven” Calvin Keys has worked with Jimmy Smith, Ahmad Jamal, and Ray Charles. Here, he and his ’72 Gibson...

Gibson Humbucker

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Gibson and Fender may be the longstanding heavyweight rivals of the electric guitar game, but they have one very important thing in common: they...

Dan’s Guitar RX: Mending Chuck Panozzo’s 1960 ES-125

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Like you, I got a kick out of the February “Classics” feature on Chuck Panozzo being reunited with his Gibson ES-125TC, which had suffered...

Ro-Pat-In’s First Electric Spanish

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The story of George Beauchamp's invention of what would become the first commercially successful electric guitar is shrouded in the mist of murky memory....