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The Story of Mosrite Guitars, Part One

Posted January 18, 2005 at 11:56 am | No comments

by Tim Brennan and Rick Landers
Standing six-feet four, with wavy black hair and movie star looks, guitar designer and builder Semie Moseley left his mark on guitar history with his creation of the Mosrite Ventures model. And it truly was an act of creation. Every aspect of these instruments reflects Moseley’s hand – he designed the pickups, wound them himself, designed the cool “M” headstock, added the German carve, tilted the neck pickup, introduced “speed frets” – and then lavished his creations with exquisite paint jobs we waded in until the surf was up….

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Hank Garland, A Guitarist’s Guitarist

Posted December 30, 2004 at 2:30 pm | No comments

by Rick Landers
Legendary guitarist and virtuoso session man Hank “Sugar Foot” Garland (1930 – 2004) passed away on Monday, December 27, 2004, at the age of 74. Hank’s sparkling guitar work can be heard on such classic recordings as Elvis Presley’s “Little Sister”, “Bye Bye Love” by Don and Phil Everly, “I Fall to Pieces” with Patsy Cline, as well as with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis…

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