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What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar is “wall-to-wall popular in the United States,” says Brookes in this chronicle of the guitar and how it became entwined with the history of America.
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"Tim Brookes has written a book that combines memoir and history in a most engaging manner…The heart and soul of the book is Brookes's love of music and the instruments that make it."
Kliatt
"Brookes is the perfect reader for his own material-passionate, knowledgeable, and funny…Brookes has a musicians ear for storytelling, a dry sense of humor, and some terrific turns of phrase."
AudioFile
"With a storyteller's-and a guitarist's-sense of pitch and timing…An intelligent work with the quality of a sonorous voice drifting from the radio."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)