Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey - Best Electric Guitar for Beginners & Professionals | Perfect for Live Performances, Studio Recording & Home Practice

A novice guitar fanatic's hilarious and heartwarming quest to learn to play guitar well enough to perform a concert--in six months The guitar is the iconic instrument of modern popular music. It is portable, it has history, and it will always be hip.But why has the guitar become such a classic? Will Hodgkinson, a wannabe guitar player, whose only experience was an afternoon's bashing on a friend's guitar at the age of sixteen, set out to find out. Along the way he hoped to teach himself a few chords too. His goal was to get good enough to play before a live audience in just six months--even if it threatened to drive his wife and family to the point of insanity.His trip becomes an He chats with British folk legend Bert Jansch, ex-Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr, and reclusive folk guitar legend Davey Graham, as well as Sufjan Stevens, PJ Harvey, and Cat Power's chanteuse Chan Marshall. He travels to America and with a hurricane brewing visits Roger McGuinn from the Byrds. He travels to the Deep South, looking for the spirit of Robert Johnson, and drops in on T-Model Ford, an old bluesman living in Mississippi.Gloriously readable and highly amusing, Guitar Man is classic obsessional nonfiction for a nation of guitar freaks.