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NEWS: A Boy and His Guitar

Dr_Frank

Oakland, CA

May 2005

NOV 13, 2005 09:30 AM

MUSIC: A Boy and His Guitar

CMT.com interviews the great and still very much alive Porter Wagoner about an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame featuring some of his "junk."

I'm a sucker for "first guitar" stories, and this one's pretty good:

You have your first guitar, an $8 National, in the exhibit.

My mother ordered that guitar for me, and I paid for it by trapping rabbits. I trapped rabbits, sold [pelts] for a dime apiece -- 15 cents apiece, once in a while, when the market was good. We lived out in the country, and I'd meet the mailman every day. Whatever rabbits I had trapped during that time [I'd] sell them to him.

How many rabbits did it take to buy the guitar?

It took quite a few. It didn't cost very much money because she ordered it out of a catalog -- Montgomery Ward.

semyaza

Wildomar, CA

December 2004

NOV 13, 2005 12:24 PM

Damn...I used to watch the Porter Wagoner Show on TV waayyy back when. It's good to know he's still kicking around. Before rock&roll took me by the balls, Porter Wagoner and Buck Owens were my musical heros. Sounds odd coming from someone who loves metal, punk and goth!

[Edited on Nov 13, 2005 12:24PM]