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GALLERY: Guitar of the Month 2011

All 12 axes featured as Guitar of the Month in 2011.

"рI recently got this 1966 Mosrite Mark XII from an antique dealer friend, who originally bought the 12-string for five bucks,"" says owner Terence Murphy. But the guitar had been stored in the rafters of a garage for nearly 30 yearsяinside a broken case that didnуt shut. рThere was mold covering the entire guitar,с recalls Murphy. рThe Klusons were covered in rust and would not budge, but the worst part was the rat gnaw on the lower bout.с fter carefully rubbing out and polishing the finish, Murphy removed all the rusty and damaged parts, soaked them in light oil, and cleaned the rosewood fretboard. The revitalized Mosrite Mark XII model featured here has a two-tone sunburst finish on an alder body, boasting the рGerman carveс perfected by Mosrite founder Semie Moseley. The thin maple neck is topped with a rosewood fretboard, and the 24.5""- scale guitar still has the original hardware (minus the rust) including the Klusons tuners and Volume and Tone knobs. Murphy describes the original Mosrite pickups as having рa unique, jangly vibe with a shimmering high-end quality to them."

It’s Day 20 of Stompboxtober! Enter now for your shot at winning today’s pedal from Electro-Harmonix!

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Dakota Dave Hull plays a cozy set in Japan with Takasi Hamada on his right, and Xavier Ohmura on his left.

Photo by Kosuke Nagai 

A chance glance at a Stefan Grossman LP led our columnist to discover the acoustic connections between the U.S. and Japan.

When acoustic guitarists like myself hear an album that just sounds so good, we might fuss less about gear and home in more on performance and atmosphere. Indeed, those were the things that blew me away on country-blues guru Stefan Grossman’s album from the late ’70s, Acoustic Guitar. Dynamic playing with a healthy big-room sound, the production was a far cry from a lot of Grossman’s late-’60s output, some of which was recorded in closets on budget reel-to-reel decks.

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Watch the livestream of "Concert for Carolina" featuring Luke Combs, Eric Church, Billy Strings, and James Taylor on October 26. Free access for Hurricane Helene-impacted areas, $24.99 for others. All proceeds go to hurricane relief efforts.

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MJ Lenderman, seen here playing his Jazzmaster with Wednesday, first started on guitar at the age of 8, when he was entranced by the music of Jimi Hendrix.

Photo by Tim Bugbee/tinnitus photography


Over the past few years, singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman has had a taste of success with his band Wednesday and his latest solo albums. On his new solo release Manning Fireworks, his artistic depth is on full display in his carefully unwinding, twanging riffs and sage lyrics, informed in part by a sturdy sense of humor.

English actress Glenda Jackson is credited with what’s now become an old performance-art adage: “Comedy is much harder to do than drama.” During my time living in New York City for the last eight-and-a-half years, I spent countless hours in open-mic basement dungeons—where small rodents would occasionally die and pungently decay beneath the floorboards and cellar stairwells—studying amateur standups workshop ideas in two- to seven-minute allotments of stage time.

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