Features a middle aged white Blues guitarist with a magic guitar that was made from the wood of Muddy Waters shack. The “hero” is a drop out in this world, but the new world he goes to treats musical ability as a superpower.
Could be from the 80s.
No clue. But Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top famously DID get a guitar made from the wood from Muddy Waters’ (nee McKinley Morganfield’s) shack. It’s called the Muddywood guitar.
And it’s kinda a crime that it was made into a Moderne shape. But maybe that’s just me.
Hey squeegee - long time no post. Hope you’re well. Yeah, not quite a Moderne, but I totally agree with your assessment - not great.
It’s shown in Post #5 of this thread: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=928700
The second half of your description sounds like Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger, but the first half is completely off from that.
Hey, WordMan (waves) - nice to see you, too!
Yeah, that is one seriously ugly guitar to carry MW’s legacy around. Did there really need to be a coil of poop laid over the top? Gibbons had a liking for kitchy guitars that could be endearing to a point, but this is just fail.
I would have said Spellsinger as well but that had nothing to do with Muddy Waters…
I would have guessed the Silver John novels by Manly Wade Wellman, but there’s no mention of the guitar being made from Muddy Waters’ shack…
Doesn’t sound un-Spider Robinson-ish.
True, but Jake Stonebender’s guitar was made by somebody named after a Princess Bride reference. Goldman, maybe?
“Lady Macbeth” was (is) a Gibson. A wizard named Montoya repaired it in an early Callahan’s story.*
There’s not enough overlap between the Callahan stories and the OP’s summary for it to be the same - I’m wondering if it’s a late SR novel or story I might have missed. Fits thematically with many of the others.
- It was to my mild regret that I found Spider doesn’t travel with LB and brought a backup guitar instead.