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In 1918, when the first U.S. stamp to feature an airplane was issued, printing the red and blue design was a two-step process. A sheet for a hundred s...

Best not to honk one's own horn, is the prevailing attitude espoused by most in this modern era. There are always, of course, the notable non-espouser...

Pedal steel is a notoriously challenging instrument, a weirdly-tuned ten-stringed contraption requiring all four limbs and the ability to picture an i...

The thing that always drove me crazy when I first got into fingerstyle was learning some cool guitar instrumental that only lasted for eight or twelve...

I finally got my hands on a couple of '60s-era Johnny Hart comic books – those cheap fifty-cent Fawcett paperbacks of B.C. and The Wizard of Id now go...

I started working at the National Guitar Workshop when I was twenty-three, teaching basically the same slate of classes six days a week for five weeks...

I read last Friday that Henry Goldrich, proprietor of Manny's Music in New York, had passed away at the age of 88. As kids, my friends and I tended to...

Re: poetry, it turns out everyone
is not what could be safely called a fan
And posting in my newsletter for fun
about dactyls and feet, because I can
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