For centuries, neck and body belonged together like a marriage—glued, permanent, born whole. Then Leo Fender turned the neck into a module held on by four screws. Jol Dantzig traces the divide, and the mythology that hardened around each side.
On Isle of Hope, the singer and guitarist channels the loss of his father—Allman Brothers legend Dickey Betts—through the guitars Dickey left behind and a set of songs that carry his memory.
