Buffy Sainte-Marie Interview talking about her favorite Gibson guitars the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and more.
Orville Gibson founded the company in 1902 as "The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd." in Kalamazoo, Michigan to make mandolin-family instruments. Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins.
By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie Christian. It was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments in 1944, which was then acquired by the E.C.L. conglomerate that changed its name to Norlin Inc. Many observers see this as the beginning of an era of mismanagement.
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I have been following Bully Sainte-Marie since the early seventies. I still enjoy her spirit, her new music as well as the "oldies." I am very impressed with her Cradleboard projiect.
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