Jan 27, 2021 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Hanging Tree Guitars Tops 2020 Dean’s List “Encouraged by my blues-prone wife, I’ve been playing it since early September and spreading its news since I was sure it was commercially available in October.” | Read More at Robert...
Dec 10, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
Hanging Tree Guitars listed in NPR’s book concierge Read More at...
Oct 13, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Why this artist built guitars out of a tree that was once used in a lynching “The creative process begins as soon as Freeman Vines touches the wood.” | Read More at NBC...
Sep 30, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
A North Carolina Artist’s Search for a Lost Sound Uncovered a Dark History “Artist Freeman Vines was captivated for a long time with an unforgettable sound he once heard from a gospel musician’s guitar.” | Read More at Atlas...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, No Depression
The Reading Room: Art, Music, and History Merge in Hanging Tree Guitars “North Carolinian Freeman Vines is one such luthier, though until now his story has been little known outside of his small patch of ground in eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
The Wood’s ‘Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly–Just Strange’ “A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines.” | Read More at...
Sep 11, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Premier Guitar
How a North Carolina luthier’s instruments unearthed a buried story of the American South “Luthier and musician Freeman Vines was 8 or 9 years old when his neighbor, an older white man named Oscar Hopper, introduced him to the guitar.” | Read More...
Sep 10, 2020 | American Songwriter, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Hanging Tree Guitars Delivers Important Insights About America’s Racial Divide “At a time when America is struggling mightily to address past and present racial injustices, his story couldn’t be more relevant.” | Read More at American...
Sep 1, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
The remarkable life & work of guitar maker Freeman Vines “For nearly half a century, the North Carolina native has created instruments out of found wood—including some from a notorious hanging tree.” | Read More at Smithsonian...
Aug 26, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Rolling Stone
Hanging Tree Guitars: See Artist Freeman Vines’ Haunting Creations “Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for...
Aug 20, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows “The Turner Contemporary Gallery hosts an exhibit exploring the U.S. civil rights movement, as well as two installations from contemporary Black British artists who find inspiration in the local...
Aug 12, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Variety
A book, companion CD and virtual exhibit celebrates the life and work of musician and luthier Freeman Vines “Freeman Vines may not be a well known name in the music world, but his work is finally being recognized.” | Read More at...
Aug 4, 2020 | Boing Boing, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Man builds guitars using wood from a lynching tree “Vines deeply moving work is the subject of a new photography book, Hanging Tree Guitars, with tintype images by Timothy Duffy and essays by Zoe Van Buren and Lonnie Holley.” | Read More at Boing...
Jul 12, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Collection of carvings, photographs paint a portrait of Greene County native’s life as a black man in the rural South “The sound that Freeman Vines heard more than 50 years ago so reverberated with this artist that he would spend much of the rest of his life...
