Sharing the mic - I don't normally do it, but glad I did this time. Check it out!

Rich — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:14:14 +0000

My next to last gig of 2024 and this was the closing song. A lady in the audience wanted to sing with me. I don't normally do this but the group she was with were very engaged and supportive, so I let her come up and close with me.

She did an AMAZING JOB with the cover of "Me and Bobby McGee" - Check it out!

Me and Bobby McGee

A Study in Cheap Guitars

Traveling Bone SC — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:04:04 +0000

Here's a link to a tune I uploaded I don't know, 12 years ago perhaps, of a Marshall Tucker tune I've always loved. A song off the beaten MTB path, if you will. Recorded on a cheap Android phone in a dingy apartment in South Congaree, South Carolina when I was dirt poor, paying child support through my nose, eating a lot of potted meat sandwiches and drinking my landlord's free liquor. Performed on a very cheap Epiphone AJ-45 ('64 reissue? Can't recall). I saw it hanging on the wall at Sims Music and snatched it up because of the color and pickguard design. It didn't sound all that bad really for an all laminate box but it did make an appearance when plugged in and mixed through a Roland Street Cube as you will hear. Toss on an old cowboy hat and dark sunglasses for effect as well. This season of my life I was performing a few gigs at a bar in Northeast Columbia, SC on a Thursday evening for $75. It was usually slow or no one there but it was great practice, right? One evening a bunch of motorcycle riders were having a meeting there and heard me play. The president of the club liked what he heard and asked me to play for their clubhouse meetings in Clarendon County, about an hour and a half drive away. I obliged several times and they liked it and I loved it. I posted the following tune at some point and the motorcycle club president told me that this was his new "theme song". I felt honored! Here's to The Carolina Rebels MC, CCC (Clarendon County Chapter (333).

https://youtu.be/JNPtxOgMyIM?si=2H3_jfE0HXsd4LvK

Hybrid Guitar Build - Youtube

RichFord — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:30:02 +0000

I am amazed at the talent many have; especially luthiers who build 100% handmade guitars. I found this video on Youtube and was mesmerized as I watched him build it. It's beautiful - I wonder how well it plays or sounds.
Building a hand made guitar.

Music Videos - Rich Ford Guitarist Forum

Sharing the mic - I don't normally do it, but glad I did this time. Check it out!

A Study in Cheap Guitars

Hybrid Guitar Build - Youtube