One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020 To meet Freeman Vines is to meet America itself. An artist, a luthier and a spiritual philosopher, Vines’ life is a roadmap of the truths and contradictions of the American South. He remembers the hidden histories of the eastern North Carolina land on which his family has lived since enslavement. For over 50 years Vines has transformed materials culled from a forgotten landscape in his relentless pursuit of building a guitar capable of producing a singular tone that has haunted his dreams. From tobacco barns, mule troughs, and radio parts he has created hand-carved guitars, each instrument seasoned down to the grain by the echoes of its past life. In 2015 Vines befriends photographer Timothy Duffy and the two begin to document the guitars, setting off a mutual outpouring of the creative spirit. But when Vines acquires a mysterious stack of wood from the site of a lynching, Vines and Duffy find themselves each grappling with the spiritual unrest and the psychic toll of racial violence living in the very grain of America. 8 x 8 1/2 in.. 159 pages, 80 duotone images Paperback with flaps September 1st, 2020
Details e-book Hanging Tree Guitars
πΈ Author(s): Freeman Vines
πΈ Title: Hanging Tree Guitars
πΈ Rating : 4.8 from 5 stars (84 reviews)
πΈ ISBN-10: 0578624036
πΈ ISBN-13: 9780578624037
πΈ Languange: English
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