A Perfectly Good Guitar
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1257-5 (ISBN)
Ask guitar players about their instruments, and you’re likely to get a story—where the guitar came from, or what makes it unique, or why the player will never part with it. Most guitarists have strong feelings about their primary tool, and some are downright passionate about their axes. Chuck Holley is a professional photographer and writer who loves music and listening to musicians talk about their trade. For several years, he has been photographing guitarists with their prized instruments and collecting their stories. This beautifully illustrated book presents these stories in revelatory photographs and words.
The guitarists included in this book range from high-profile performers, including Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, Laurence Juber, Jorma Kaukonen, JD Souther, Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, and Kelly Willis, to renowned studio musicians and band members. Holley’s beautifully composed photographs portray them with their favorite guitar, including detail shots of the instrument. Accompanying the photographs are the musicians’ stories about the Gibsons, Fenders, Martins, and others that have become the guitar in their lives, the one that has a special lineage or intangible qualities of sustain, tone, clarity, and comfort that make it irreplaceable. Several musicians talk about how the guitar chose them, while others recount stories of guitars lost or stolen and then serendipitously recovered. Together, these photographs and stories underscore the great pleasure of performing with an instrument that’s become a trusted friend with a personality all its own.
Chuck Holley has worked as a commercial photographer in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; a general assignment reporter and photographer for a southwest Iowa newspaper; and a photographer for a university.
Introduction
Dave Alvin, A National Steel among the Hopi Dolls
Ray Benson, The Red 355
Toronzo Cannon, The Gig and the Job
Rosanne Cash, Something Perfect
Cindy Cashdollar, Risen from the Ashes
Guy Clark, A Chunk of Wood
Joanna Connor, The Great Mistake
Peter Cooper, All the Best, Tom T. Hall
Dan Dugmore, Blacka and the Bandit
Tommy Emmanuel, The Mouse
Alejandro Escovedo, Thousands of Songs
Denny Freeman, One Night at the Continental
Bill Frisell, Old Wood
Eliza Gilkyson, The Goya and the Gibson
John Hammond, Number 7
David Holt, Sara Jane's Tune
Bill Hullett, The New Old Nocaster
Cornell Hurd, The Wonders of the Galaxie
Daniel Ivankovich, An Education in the Blues
John Jorgenson, The Django Mystery
Laurence Juber, Clipped Wings
Jorma Kaukonen, Not Vintage, Just Old
Bill Kirchen, Three New Heads and Five New Handles
Sonny Landreth, The Strat under the Bed
Jack Lawrence, Doc's Martin
Greg Leisz, Twenty Bucks Well Spent
John Leventhal, One Guitar, One Thousand Gigs
Dave Malone, The $80 Telecaster
Rob McNelley, More Than Just a Guitar
Lisa Morales, A Rare Find
Scrappy Jud Newcomb, A Good Kind of Worn
Johnny Nicholas, Nothing Like a Don
James Pennebaker, Curtis Ray's Lap Steel
Louie Pérez, Mi Jarana
Casper Rawls, Connected Up, Austin Style
G. E. Smith, A Good Guitar Is a Good Guitar
JD Souther, A Long Way in a Short Time
Marty Stuart, Clarence White's /'54 Tele
Dan Tyminski, The First and the Last
Redd Volkaert, That Good Buck Owens Sound
Waddy Wachtel, The Best Deal Ever
Dustin Welch, A Catalog Guitar
Kevin Welch, Little Sister
Kelly Willis, Something That Matters
Jamie Lin Wilson, One Guitar for the Rest of Your Life
Carolyn Wonderland, Patty the Blueshawk
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.04.2017 |
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| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 794 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-1257-9 / 1477312579 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-1257-5 / 9781477312575 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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