| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Sho-Bro to Sho-Bud | | Date: | Monday, July 3, 2006 21:57:53 (-0500) | | From: | Wayne Langdon <wlangdon @......com>
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Today at my lesson I asked the guy I'm taking lessons from (Carroll Parham)
about the story behind his Sho- Bro guitar. Among other things he asked me if
I'd ever seen a Sho-Bud guitar, where upon he stopped the clock on the lesson
and he brought out his collection one by one. 8 in all. Six 7 string Sho-Buds
and two 6 string Sho-Bros. The 7 string Sho Buds had that white fret board that
folks were talking about here on the list. The white fret boards were laid out
in suit of cards. Spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. One had SHOT JACKSON
inlayed in the fret board a letter for each fret position. Carroll said that was
the instrument that Shot more often as not played on Hee Haw. He had a Spruce
looking, card suit inlayed Sho Bud and showed me an album cover with Shot Playing
it. The Sho-Bro that he plays pretty much exclusively on stage and when
instructing is, he says the one that Shot used most often for recording and then
rattled off a laundry list of country legends, Hank Thompson, Kitty Wells etc,
etc. I was, and still am fascinated with the steel nut that they all have. The
Sho-Buds have a sway belly back and not flat like most Resos. All sound
fantastic.
All in all it was an inspiring and interesting afternoon.
Wayne
Copperas Cove, Texas
~~~~~Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes all by itself~~~~
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Sho-Bro to Sho-Bud
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