Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys turned an old ballad called “Darling Nelly Gray” into the country sensation “Faded Love.” Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, and Ray Price each had top-ten singles with it, and countless others have recorded it. Here, Dix Bruce goes back to the tune’s instrumental roots with a set of variations played on a 1974 S. L. Mossman Flint Hills Special, one of 27 instruments offered in the Acoustic Guitar Auction that begins May 13, 2021.
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This is number 857 of about 7,500 S. L. Mossman guitars, built in 1974, one year before a factory fire destroyed Mossman's stock of Brazilian rosewood. The Flint Hills Special was the second of four models, all dreadnoughts, offered in the original Mossman line-up. It retailed for about $450 when purchased new. It has the powerful distinctive Mossman sound and response and represents a unique chapter in American lutherie.