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The state's R&B recording industry was based in Houston with labels such as Duke/Peacock, which in the 1950s provided a base for artists who would later pursue the electric Texas blues sound, including Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins. [1] Freddie King, a major influence on electric blues, was born in Texas, but moved to Chicago as a teenager ...
In 1978, he started working at Wayne Charvel's guitar repair shop in Covina, California (while using a PO Box in neighboring San Dimas). Since Charvel's shop was almost bankrupted, Charvel eventually sold his interest to Grover Jackson on November 10, 1978, which gave Jackson control of the business and the Charvel brand.
Baby Series: Collings' smallest guitar, approximately a 3/4 size version of their OM. 12 1/2-inches wide in the lower bout with a 24 1/8-inch scale. CJ Series: The Collings Jumbo is their version of the classic slope-shouldered dreadnought. SJ Series: The SJ is Collings' version of what is commonly called a small Jumbo. Although the 16-inch ...
Collings became a luthier, the technical name for a guitar-maker, when he was just 14, stringing rubber bands onto an old cigar box to make his first guitar. "My friends and I would always be ...
In early 1937, Gibson began shipping two four-string versions: a tenor guitar (the EST-150, with a 23" scale, renamed the ETG-150 in 1940) and a plectrum version (the EPG-150, with a 27" scale). [5] Early players included Eddie Durham , Floyd Smith and, the most famous of them, Charlie Christian, who bought an ES-150 in 1936.
These guitars' cases had a small built-in amplifier, and the guitars themselves had very short-scale 18-fret necks, which proved popular with beginners. Similarly the Silvertone 1484 "Twin Twelve" 60-watt guitar amplifier , introduced in 1963 as an affordable beginner's amp, has gained a collectors' following, since artists like Jack White ...
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A man in Waxahachie, Texas, went viral Monday after a video was posted on social media with a caption that said the man paid $4,000 for a guitar signed by Swift. The video shows him immediately ...