Mar 19, 2025 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Freeman Vines, a mystical luthier who etched the South’s legacy of racial terror into wood, died on March 13, 2025, in Fountain, North Carolina, at the age of 82. Vines gained widespread recognition through the 2020 release of the book Hanging Tree Guitars, a...
Jan 27, 2021 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
NPR Names Book to Best of 2020 List in Six Categories Robert Christgau, known as the Dean of Rock Critics, has named Hanging Tree Guitars (Music Maker Relief Foundation) as his number one best album of 2020 on his Dean’s List. The album collects field recordings...
Sep 10, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying music album Hanging Tree Guitars to be released September 25 Rolling Stone hailed new book Hanging Tree Guitars, out last week by Freeman Vines with Zoe Buren and Timothy Duffy on Bitter Southerner and Music Maker Relief Foundation, as “haunting” as...
Aug 7, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Liner notes for Hanging Tree Guitars released Freeman Vines made his first guitars because he was searching for a sound. Assembly line Fenders and Gibsons were too conventional to give voice to the music he imagined. He has worked with all kinds of materials: the...
Jul 21, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Companion album to book of the same name (published on Bitter Southerner) on the guitars and artwork of Freeman Vines Music Maker Relief Foundation has confirmed the release of a new compilation album sacred soul and blues Hanging Tree Guitars, out September 25, to...
