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Beaver Lake, AR
Ed Stilley - Guitars
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Guitar artist and musician

Information:

The instrument used on this recording was built by one of the last homesteaders of the Ozark Mountains. Ed Stilley of Hogscald Hollar, cut down trees from his land, then nailed and glued them together. It's fitted with a saw blade pinned by coil springs, welding-rod frets, a couple of door springs and a steak bone nut & saddle sitting on two stacks of dimes. All told, the guitar weighs a good 30 lbs!

All this metal and spring inside the guitar creates a mysterious reverb that Ed describes as the voice of God. Ed has made over 150 instruments and given them all away to children in response to a 'calling'.

Kelly Mulhollan

	Reference / Links:
	DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Miles and Miles o' Mo-Tex-Arkana" "Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations" Still on the Hill Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009.
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Bibliography:

On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Miles and Miles o' Mo-Tex-Arkana", KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 1996-2001.

"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations" by Randy Mason, Michael Murphy and Don Mayberger, 2002.

"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009.

Credit: Randy Mason/Mike Murphy, "Rare Visions"

	Credit: Mike Murphy
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