Publisher's Synopsis
- A rarer-than-hen's-teeth 1966 Hallmark Swept-Wing that originally belonged to Robbie Krieger of the Doors, stashed away in an attic in Alaska for forty years!
- A crazy-valuable 1958 Gibson Flying V belonging to a Chicago bluesman—who, it turns out, also happens to have an equally rare 1958 Gibson Explorer!
- An out-of-the-blue “to whom it may concern” email that leads the author to a trailer park in Salem, Oregon, where one of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys' original 1940s Epiphone Emperor archtops is waiting to be purchased for a song!
- Nat “King” Cole Trio guitarist Oscar Moore's Stromberg Master 400 archtop, bought by luthier R. C. Allen—who was also gifted a 1953 Standel amp by Merle Travis!
- The 1970 Micro-Frets Huntington given to the author by Buddy Merrill, the amazingly talented guitarist from the Lawrence Welk show, on the express condition that he “promises to practice.”