Blog - Acoustic Music

Duane Allman’s Les Paul

The 1957 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top was owned by Duane Allman and used on the first two Allman Brothers Band albums: Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South. It was also the guitar used by Allman for the Derek & the Dominos recording sessions with Eric Clapton. It...

Duane Allman’s Gibson SG

This 1961/62 Gibson SG belonged to Duane Allman and is the instrument played on the live recording of "Statesboro Blues" from the Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East. The SG was part of the "Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll" exhibit at the Metropolitan...

Graham Nash Martin D-45

50 years after the second public appearance of the group Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival in 1969,this Martin D-45 guitar owned and played by Graham Nash was sold at Heritage Auctions on July 20 & 21, 2019. Graham had originally...

The 2019 NAMM Show

The guys from the shop made their annual trip to the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show in Anaheim, CA. NAMM is known as the "the world’s largest trade-only event for the music products, pro audio and event tech industry" with over 100,000 people in...

Women Account for Half of Guitar Sales

A report from IbisWorld shows sales growth has been on the rise. Leading the way, according to a Fender survey, are women whom account for 50% of new guitar sales in the US and U.K. “The fact that 50 percent of new guitar buyers in the U.K. were women was a surprise...

Rooting for a Gibson Comeback

As a kid, Jimmy Page's Gibson Les Paul was the stuff of my guitar dreams. Fifteen year old me certainly couldn't afford Jimmy's Les Paul, but it inspired me to get my first guitar from a local pawn shop. I've been noodling ever since. So, it pained me to learn Gibson...

A Brief History of Rock ‘n’ Roll

In 1922, the words “rock” and “roll”, which was black slang for sexual intercourse, appear on record for the first time in Trixie Smith’s “My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll”.The transition was steady and seamless. Big Band dance music and Western Swing had long...

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