Larry Bell’s Vast Collection of 12-String Acoustic Guitars
In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most prized collection. The artist Larry Bell, 85, was born with severe undiagnosed hearing loss. “I didn’t know it, and neither did…
Susan Alcorn, Voyager on Pedal Steel Guitar, Dies at 71
Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde, died on Friday in…
British Airways Destroyed Our Guitar and Won’t Pay Up
Dear Tripped Up, I’m a co-owner of Luaka Bop, a New York-based record label, and last June was accompanying the Staples Jr. Singers, a gospel group from Aberdeen, Miss., on…