{"product_id":"guitar-man-a-six-string-odyssey-or-you-love-that-guitar-more-than-you-love-me","title":"Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGuitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWill Hodgkinson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780306815140\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDa Capo Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1st Da Capo Press Ed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 odyssey: 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, \u003cem\u003eGuitar Man\u003c\/em\u003e is classic obsessional nonfiction for a nation of guitar freaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More than You Love Me | Will Hodgkinson | Paperback | 9780306815140 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1757225","offer_id":49149198925976,"sku":"1757225","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71ZHRU-f4EL.jpg?v=1779525394","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/guitar-man-a-six-string-odyssey-or-you-love-that-guitar-more-than-you-love-me","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}