Country star and certified guitar geek Lindsay Ell shares some advice on how to finish that first song. Bonus: She shares the first song she ever wrote.
John Bohlinger gets his mitts on Portland, Oregon, luthier Saul Koll's mix of a mid-'60s Epiphone Coronet and a Gibson Melody Maker SG, complete with Guyatone gold-foil replica pickups by Curtis Novak.
"Hey, have you seen anything new and cool?" is a popular conversation starter at NAMM. But there are myriad inventions that don't make it into these conversations or onto the show floor.