A People's History of the Guitar
A People's History of the Guitar is about people, guitars, people and their guitars, and guitars and their people.
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UNREDACTED! Guitars and the Epstein Files (opens the original)
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This episode is about guitars in unexpected places. Like...the Epstein Files. Yes. There are guitars in the Epstein Files. There are also dishwashers. Does this mean that Jeffrey Epstein had a thing for guitars? Or dishwashers? Nah, it doesn't. But it does mean that guitars are everywhere in our world. Even in the world of one of the most despicable people to have ever shared our world. Some of the instances of the word "guitar" in the Epstein Files are dumb. But others seem to tell stories. Tel
Broken Guitars and Broken Hearts (opens the original)
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I've been thinking more and more about people and their relationships with their guitars (and their guitar-adjacent instruments), and what happens when those relationships break up. Or more specifically, when guitars get broken, and those broken guitars break hearts. There are different kinds of guitar breakage. Sometimes breaking a guitar is the thing ya gotta do to make a point. Then again, sometimes guitars break when you don't want them to break. This one runs from the ancient suburbs of Cai
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