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We’ll take this moment to be
completely honest. We love Austin as
much as the next guy wearing a tie-dye “Keep
Austin Weird” tee, but Summer NAMM in
Nashville is the shit. Since there’s pretty much an
incredible picker around every corner – and on
many of the corners themselves – you couldn’t
turn around without hearing someone play-
ing twangy, bent double-stops better than you.
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Whether it was the demo guy in the booth or the
entertainment at industry parties large and small,
Nashville felt like a celebration thrown for guitar-
ists by guitarists, and we just happened to get
the invite.
Interestingly, some of the major industry players
like Seymour Duncan and Paul Reed Smith opted
to eschew the booth to instead scope out the
