Review: Collings SoCo 16 LC Guitar - American Songwriter

Review: Collings SoCo 16 LC Guitar
American Songwriter
A rosewood fingerboard with dot position markers sits upon the single piece rosewood neck, and the large ebony faced headstock with its asymmetrical outline is reminiscent of both D'Angelico and Epiphone guitars from the days when big fat hollowbodies ...

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Martin Guitar to be featured on PBS special 'America Revealed' - The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com


The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Martin Guitar to be featured on PBS special 'America Revealed'
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
The guitar icon will be showcased during an airing of the series "America Revealed" 10 pm Wednesday. For the show theme "Made in the USA," host Yul Kwon, winner of "Survivor: Cook Islands," will outline the experience of American men and women who ...

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Make sweet music magic from this guitar shaped like a woman's curves - Digitaltrends.com


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Make sweet music magic from this guitar shaped like a woman's curves
Digitaltrends.com
Only joking (a little), but one artist takes this notion to a literal level by creating this six string acoustic guitar shaped to resemble the female body. With the outline curving around like a woman's figure, now you can hold on to what feels like ...

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Singles Bar: 1-Pickup Gibson Les Pauls - Gibson

Singles Bar: 1-Pickup Gibson Les Pauls
Gibson
The Junior's outline shape was the same as the Gold Top and Custom of 1954. It had a sweet orange-brown sunburst finish. But, as a guitar, it was way simpler than a Gold Top. Its body was a flat-topped slab of mahogany (no maple cap) and was loaded ...

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Alt-J - An Awesome Wave - ClashMusic.com


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Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
ClashMusic.com
The keys dictate the melody, sparse guitars spread out behind and liberal, distorted bass drones (that any bedroom producer would be proud of ) provide chance drops. One could cautiously draw comparisons to Radiohead, in the way Alt-J veer through ...

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Under My Skin: Externalizing Tolkien - TheOneRing.net


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Under My Skin: Externalizing Tolkien
TheOneRing.net
When I outgrew the theatrics and moved on to a greater appreciation of the music itself, it still needed to be loud guitars, pounding drums, and long, epic stories. If there were battles in the songs themselves, so much the better.

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Art: Dale Pierrottie - My New Orleans

Art: Dale Pierrottie
My New Orleans
When Pierrottie is not in Vermilionville, he can be found in an old corrugated metal shed behind his house, sculpting the clay-moss mixture into fantastical images of turtles, rock guitars, boats, African and Southwest American Indian masks, ...

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