Between the Strings

The Secret Lives of Guitars

	Book of guitar stories	$18.95

Description
Between the Strings, compiled by John Schroeter, is a collection of 102, yes one hundred and two, stories about guitars! Each story is written by a different guitarist about a particular guitar that he/she owned. Story writers range from Jose Feliciano to Christopher Parkening and everyone in between. A portion of the introduction by B. B. King is quoted below. If you like the intro, you'll love the book. Each story is just as engaging.

Book Introduction by B.B. King:
"The first good guitar I ever owned was a Gibson acoustic with a DeArmond pickup that I bought in Memphis with the help of my cousin, Bukka White. It's the guitar I was playing in 1949 at a gig in Twist, Arkansas, about forty-five miles northwest of Memphis. Well, it used to get quite cold in Twist, so they'd take what looked like a big garbage pail and half fill it with kerosene. They'd light that fuel and set it in the middle of the dance floor, and people danced around it. Flames would be coming up out of that thing, and it heated the place right up. Well, one night two guys started to fight, and one knocked the other right over into this heater. And when that happened, all that flaming kerosene came spilling out onto the floor. Everybody started to run for the front door—including B.B. King! But when I got on the outside, I realized that I had left my guitar behind, so I ran back for it. By that time, the bulding was burning rapidly and it started to collapse around me. I almost lost my life trying to save my guitar. Two other people weren't so lucky. Well, the next morning we found out that these two guys were fighting about a lady. I never did meet the lady, but I learned that her name was Lucille. I decided to name my guitar Lucille to remind me never to do a thing like that again!"

To read the rest of this introduction and to read more stories of guitarists and their guitars, buy this book! We thoroughly enjoyed it!