It has been almost 100 years since the resonator guitar was born of necessity. In the days before amplification, musicians needed a way to make their acoustic guitars louder, and the striking ...

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Tim Scheerhorn, the genius behind the coveted Scheerhorn Resonator Guitar and recent inductee into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame, led me into his ascetic, sub level workshop and offered me a ...

Matt Eich plays one of his hand-crafted steel Mule Resophonic resonator guitars Matt Eich, 31, plays one of his hand-crafted Mule Resophonic resonator guitars at his shop in the Central Warehouse on ...

Like James Brown or Apollo Creed, Houston has more than its share of nicknames. John Egan snared one of the more antique tags for his new album, "Magnolia City." Magnolia City was heard more often in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bonnie Raitt’s resonator guitar CLEVELAND, ...