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I know there are a lot of Levon Helm fans here. This is a new film about him that I suspect we'll all want to see.

He was the real deal.

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For your interest only. This is not intended to have any political context, but simply reflects the state of the music retailer sector of the economy right now.


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How's this for a misleading description, from someone who represents himself as a Nashville dealer, no less? Did you know that a late-60's J-50 ADJ was one built with Advanced Jumbo characteristics, rather than an adjustable bridge model? LOL!

I did send him a terse but polite message asking him to do his homework and fix his listing. We'll see if anything happens. For some reason, this type of stuff really frosts me.

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Paul Williams, perhaps the first serious rock music critic and writer, died over the weekend. He founded "Crawdaddy" magazine when he was a 17-year-old college freshman, and went on to write some of the finest books about rock music of his generation. He was one of the first to take Dylan seriously as a writer/poet, and his multiple books on Dylan's music and performances are still classics of rock criticism.

He died of dementia, probably brought on by a serious head injury from a bicycle accident a number of years ago.

I'm forever trolling the internet looking for Gibsons in unusual settings.

There are outlaws, and then there are OUTLAWS. The Prisonaires were a prisoner-created musical group signed by Sun in the early 1950's. Their most familiar composition would be "Just Walkin' in the Rain". The group consisted of several killers, a rapist, and a thief.

And one very nice Gibson archtop. I can't identify the fretboard inlays, but it is a big-bodied L-variant, maybe an L-7. Someone here will know. Gives a new meaning to the term "musical outlaw".


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You can clearly hear that archtop in the original recording:

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