I just feel like blogging about one of my regular gigs, in this case a restaurant I play weekly (hopefully, not weakly). Last night at was apparently musician’s night at this restaurant. Two people came in that played guitar and/or sang. As far as I could tell, they didn’t come because they already knew me; it was just serendipity. The first was a young man that commented after he heard a song or two, “That’s a nice sounding Breedlove ya…
My friends and loved ones already know this about me, and probably most following me on Facebook. But I’m going to post this here anyway, since it will help get the word out, and…well, because I can. To steal…uh, appropriate…make that “borrow” a phrase, “It’s my web page, and I can post if I want to.” (Is anyone else hearing Lesley Gore in their head right now?) I am a guitarist/singer available for wedding/event/restaurant entertainment in the Greater Corpus Christi area.…
Copyright © 2015 by Larry G. Overton A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article about (along with pictures of) the guitars my Granddad and Dad had back in their early days. I also stated that I am on a quest to see if I can find out more about these guitars. Well, I haven’t been able to nail down just exactly what brand(s) of guitars these were, or exactly when they were purchased, but with some help I…
Copyright © 2015 by Larry G. Overton I posted last week about the guitars my Granddad and Dad had back in their early days. I’m still trying to find out as much as I can about those guitars, but I do know that both of them would be called parlor guitars by today’s standards. So for now let me talk briefly about parlor guitars. It is a relatively easy task to pigeonhole certain guitars into the parlor category, but it’s…
For me, playing guitar has always been a family thing. Both my father and grandfather before me played guitar. I’ve known this for a long time, but I wasn’t familiar with the instruments they played when they were young. Going through some old photographs recently, I found two pictures of them playing guitars I’d never seen before. The first picture is of my grandfather, Richard McKinley Roosevelt Overton (how’s that for a name?!?), posed with his brother Jesse. Great uncle…