For over 50 years, Freeman Vines has transformed materials culled from a forgotten landscape in his relentless pursuit of building a guitar capable of producing a singular tone that has haunted his dreams. From tobacco barns, mule troughs and radio parts, he has created hand-carved guitars, each instrument seasoned down to the grain by the echoes of its past life. When Vines acquires a mysterious stack of wood from the site of a lynching, Vines and co-author Duffy find themselves each grappling with the spiritual unrest and the psychic toll of racial violence living in the very grain of America.
By Freeman Vines and Timothy Duffy
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