{"product_id":"guitar-man-a-six-string-odyssey-or-you-love-that-guitar-more-than-you-love-me-9780306815140","title":"Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, Or, You Love That Guitar More Than You Love Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Will Hodgkinson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Da Capo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Guitar\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eGuitar Man\u003c\/i\u003e is classic obsessional nonfiction for a nation of guitar freaks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Da Capo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355740561559,"sku":"9780306815140","price":1777.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780306815140.webp?v=1767308983","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/guitar-man-a-six-string-odyssey-or-you-love-that-guitar-more-than-you-love-me-9780306815140","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}