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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...