My Latest Guitar - A Concert Size Stella Guitar
He played a Stella, and I had a Stella . Charley had a Stella. Son House , bluesman, 1966 interview, mentioning Willie Brown and Charley Patton Stellas-they all played the cheap old Stellas, across the board. H.C. Speir , owner of Speir Phonograph Company. He recorded many of the great blues singers and musicians during the 1920’s-1930’s. My first guitar was Harmony made Stella guitar. My mother played guitar, my father played the harmonica and at the age of four, I wanted to play the guitar in a bad way. My mother bought the guitar from one of her nephews, he wanted a better guitar and was willing to part with it for $5. It was painted black with white paint binding and a white pick guard, I thought I was in heaven as I banged away on that guitar until my mother showed me how to play some chords, the G, C, D7 chords and then that really tough chord, the A7. Those steel strings were hard on my fingertips, and I kept at it. The one day, an older cousin who stopped by to visit my parent...
