Guitar: An American Life Audiobook (Free)

How did a small, humble folk device become an American icon? How do the guitar come to represent independence, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality? With this intensely personal memoir and useful background, Tim Brookes recounts his goal to build the perfect guitar. Pairing up with a grasp artisan from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Brookes views how a uncommon little bit of cherry wood is normally hued, sawn, dovetailed, and caused rasps and documents. As his prized instrument takes form, he narrates the lengthy and winding background of your guitar in america. Arriving with conquistadors and the colonists, your guitar has found itself within an extraordinary selection of hands: miners and society girls, lumberjacks and presidents’ wives. In time, the guitar became America’s vehicle of self-expression-its modern soundtrack.

Acoustic guitar is a rare glimpse of 1 man’s search for music. It really is sure to resonate with musicians and nonmusicians as well.