From Mark Twain's Guitar to the White Stripes
Found this site called Transom.org and a piece about an interview with the White Stripes while looking for stuff about NPR's Lost and Found Sound because they did a piece once about Mark Twain's guitar.
NPR Producer Elizabeth Blair's series, Present at the Creation, looks at creative genesis of social and artistic icons - from Monopoly, The Hollywood Sign, "The Raven," and the electric guitar, to Kerouac's On the Road and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
Epiphone Airscreamer electric guitar, the Trailer Park Troubadours and a couple of their hits, Trailer on the Bayou and Pawn Shop of Broken Hearts. And then there's the pawn shop Gibson we saw this afternoon at Uncle Sam's Pawn Shop in Columbus, and the twenty-eight rooms of books at the Book Loft in German Village.