Ken Parker, an iconoclastic guitar maker who upended entrenched luthier traditions by producing hyper-engineered, flyweight guitars seemingly designed for an art gallery, if not the 23rd century, died ...
The next-gen blues star has been bestowed his second signature Tele, but it took the Purple One’s influence to convince him ...
Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.