Tim Brookes: Guitar: An American Life

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Guitar: An American Life

Shortly before his fiftieth birthday, baggage handlers destroy Tim Brookes's guitar, his twenty-two-year-old traveling companion. His wife promises to replace it with the guitar of his dreams, but Tim discovers that a dream guitar is built, not bought. He sets out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar-a quest that ends up a dirt road in the Green Mountains of Vermont. As Brookes... (read more)

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“A love letter to the guitar, Guitar: An American Life follows guitarist/author Tim Brookes as he has a new acoustic custom built to replace his damaged old favorite. Along the way, he recounts the history of the guitar, from its humble beginnings as a woman's intrument, and one played only in places of disrepute, to its place as the musical intrument that outsells all others combined. Both stories are great, told with passion, insight, and wit.”

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