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The New Lost City Ramblers recorded a whole album back in the vinyl days
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I just went through the same search after 15 years of F-hole mandolins. I bought an Eastman MD514 because of reputation and price. It has unbelievable volume and tone. Fit and finish are excellent....

I'm a Wakefield fan and I think your original tune, Two River Rapids, is a great tribute to the man. Nice job and nice pickin' too

Does it have "The Bulldog" in Gibson style script on the headstock? I had Barry build one like that for me and it sounds like number 32 would have been close to when I ordered mine. I was playing...

In the early 1960s I bought a 98 cent Columbia "Country Music Sampler" record. I bought it because there was a Flatt and Scruggs tune on it and they were not easy to find in those days. It also...

Barry Kratzer, who built Bulldog and Kratzer instruments died last night in Savannah from complications of COVID. Barry was also a singer and musician who played in bands in Pennsylvania and all...

I was at Randy Wood’s shop yesterday and unless there are 2 of these with a James tailpiece, this was on his bench already fitted with a new neck. He got it from the new owner who bought it over the...

I lived there 20 years ago and the home of bluegrass and old time music was the Piney Woods Opry in Abita Springs (across lake Pontchartrain) It has renamed itself the Abita Springs Opry and from...

Within the next few months the University of Tennessee Press will be releasing a new book about Luthier, Randy Wood. Although everyone does what they do for many different reasons this book explains...

Before you self-diagnose your hand problem see a doctor. I thought I had arthritis in my left hand for the past several years and when I finally went to a doctor for relief I was diagnosed with...

Allen -
I read a little Arabic and I'm quite sure it translates to - Only A Gibson is good enough

I've been married 44 years. Buy her a gift certificate at Elderlys and let her choose

Over the past summer I had the good fortune of stumbling across a 1945 Martin D-28 still in the possession of the original owner's family. I purchased it with a brown Lifton case, which, through the...

Walter Carter (Carter Guitars in Nashville) wrote a great history that is still available

http://www.amazon.com/Gibson-Guitars-Years-American-Icon/dp/1575440148

Pete Langdell built this one in 2003

Dennis Satterlee

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Don't forget to give Barry's wife Sabine due credit. She does the inlay work on his instruments and gets better with each new instrument. I asked Barry for a picture of a bulldog rather than the...