Episode 9

Sinners: People & Vampires & their Guitars

This episode goes off-road a little. I'm late to the party, but when I recently (finally) saw Ryan Coogler's Sinners, I couldn't not do an episode on this movie. Sinners is a cracking good vampire movie that also happens to be a micro-history of Black Music, with details that can tell us a lot about the history of string instruments in the United States. Its about the guitar, people and their guitars, and the guitar and its people...even if some of those people aren't people anymore.

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Grant Samuelsen

Grant Samuelsen has led a multimodal professional and personal life in the worlds of contemporary art and music, business, and academia, and he has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carnegie Mellon University. He has published essays, articles and criticism, and he's been a guitar player since he was 13. He's interested in everything, which is a problem, but the history of the guitar has held his attention for the longest period of time, so he's doing this podcast. He's originally from the Chicago area and lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his family, guitars, and a female Staffy named after one of the male members of Black Flag.

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