This Strings Attached Preview Episode tracks the daily routines of an eclectic cast of characters, based at Bluesman Vintage Guitars in the Greater Nashville, TN area. Join us as we explore the creation, repair and sales of some of the finest instruments, for some of the biggest names in the industry. In this episode, the guys encounter a Billy Gibbons numbered Pearly Gates Les Paul, Custom Shop reissue that . . . 

In 1966, John Lennon found himself in Almería, Spain working on Richard Lester's film, How I Won the War. Between shots, he began writing Strawberry Fields Forever, a song Lennon later called "psychoanalysis set to music" and "one of the few true songs I ever wrote." Although the song became one of the Beatles' most refined and intricate recordings, it started off simply, with Lennon . . .

From the opening cut on her first album to her most recent release, there's always been something mystical and transcendental about the way Joni Mitchell pulls sounds from a guitar. Unfettered by rules, she seemingly broke them all, devising her own tuning systems and unique chord voicings to accommodate the many-faceted compositions in her vast repertoire. Very inspirational stuff, but unfortunately, anyone attempting to correctly play or transcribe her songs over the past 40-plus years faced a daunting task, since Mitchell's tunings and voicings have, for the most part, remained shrouded in mystery, that is, until now . . .