This year’s Holiday Gear Guide featured Evan P. Donohue and Shelly Colvin, and was shot at ET Burk Mid-century and Contemporary Furnishings in downtown Nashville. Wardrobe by Billy Reid.
Christmas is coming, and if you’ve got a beginning guitar player to buy for, you can’t go wrong with the self-tuning Epiphone FT-350SCE Acoustic/Electric.
Shopping for a decent acoustic-electric for under a grand isn’t always easy, but checking out a Yamaha LL16 (pictured right) is a good place to start.
PRS isn’t the first company to build a semi-hollow electric, but when you combine it with some cool features, the S2 Mira Semi-Hollow certainly deserves checking out.
What looks cooler on a person than a guitar?
D’Angelico’s EX-175 is a 22-fret hollowbody archtop single cutaway that’s good for more than just jazz.
Austin-based Collings Guitars is best known for acoustic instruments, but the company also makes some sweet electric guitars, like the I35 LC Semi-Hollowbody, a nod to Gibson’s ES-335.
Take a break from the grind, folks, and pick up that axe! Life is short.
With a spruce top and mahogany back, sides and neck, and a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, Guild’s D-140 Acoustic is an easy-to-play axe with a well-balanced sound for any playing style.
When Fender made its foray into the hollowbody arena in 1966 with its Coronado guitars, a legendary axe was born, and although the guitar was only around for a few years, it is now back as part of Fender’s “Modern Player” reissue series.
Austin-based Collings Guitars is best known for acoustic instruments, but the company also makes some sweet electric guitars, like the I35 LC Semi-Hollowbody (pictured left), a nod to Gibson’s ES-335.
Breedlove’s Pursuit Series includes some wonderful guitars, such as the Dreadnought Ebony Acoustic-Electric.
Every new guitar has songs inside of it that are just waiting to be born.
Who wouldn’t want to cozy up to that sweet thing?
Taylor’s 150E 12-string Electric-Acoustic (pictured right) is in the realm of affordability for the everyday player and performing artist who has always wished for a quality 12-string that wouldn’t break the bank.
It looks like a band is born.
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