“Crab cakes and football. That’s what Maryland does!” Truer words are seldom spoken. That legendary one-liner has to be the greatest cinematic shoutouts to the freestate in Hollyweird history. The memorable scene from Wedding Crashers only felt more authentic considering the amount of boat shoes, button downs and mint juleps included in a scene for …
At this stage in the game, I’m pretty positive I’ve had my hands on a couple thousand guitars. I did time as an assembler for one of the worlds leading electric guitar manufacturers, started a business six years ago repairing, modifying and building guitars and have been noodling daily since I was 12. All that …
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Over the past month, weather in my neck of the woods has gone from blistering frigid conditions to cold rain and snow then morphed into sunny and warm with a chance of rainbows. Consistent streaks of weather rarely run through the mid-Atlantic and the bi-polar weather patterns definitely have an affect on peoples moods and …
Music has always been my thing. Before walking and talking I was banging on pots and pans. For my 10th birthday those pans turned into a drum set. When my drumming skills peeked two years later, I was booted from the eighth grade band and that’s when I picked up a guitar. I taught myself …
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Time is a funny thing. We can spend it. We can waste it. But we can’t make it. We will run out of time but can’t go back in time. We’re always trying to be either on time or in time and take the good times for granted while struggling to let go of bad …