Fresh off a tour with fellow virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel, Thumbpickers Hall of Fame inductee Richard Smith starts out the new year with an evening at Jerry Lee’s Music Emporium. Mark your calendar for January 15, 2022 at 7pm at Jerry’s Music Den at the store in St.Marys; for Richard Smith, the man both Chet Atkins […]
Continuing the tradition of at least once a year having a top notch performer share their talents with our “local” audience, Jerry pursued world class flatpicker David Grier for a performance at the store on this July 19 at 7pm. With a maximum audience size of about 50 guests this performance promises not only to […]
Fun and Fingerstyle Guitar Techniques with Richard Gilewitz is an in-store clinic on June 19, that you should not miss. Gilewitz has been traveling the country and the world teaching fingerstyle techniques on guitar. Just back from a trip Down-under, Richard will give his last clinic before the summer break at Jerry’s Lee’s Music Store […]
Right off the bat, you should grab the link below to win a magnificent Breedlove Guitar on Breedlove’s website, but know there is a secret way to up your chances 50 fold, every month! Here is what you have to do. At least once a month come by Jerry Lee’s Music Store and Jerry will […]
This 6th and final installment on tone woods and their sustainability within an ever growing consumer demand is about rosewood, one of the most expensive tonewood varieties. Rosewood has a lot to live up to with its smooth, warm tone and complex harmonic overtones. Visually, Rosewood is typically dark, chocolate brown in color, with a […]
In this third installment on sustainable tone woods, we’ll be talking about Ebony as a Tonewood. Previously we talked about KOA and Spruce. Woods commonly used for instrument building, known in the industry as ‘tonewoods’, more often than not are tropical hardwoods growing in countries with rampant illegal logging, lax law enforcement, and disappearing rainforests. […]
Takamine guitars are made in Japan since 1962 and distributed in the US by ESP Guitars in Hollywood, California since 2015. The brandname was taken from Mount Takamine, a prominent feature in the skyline panorama of the small city of Nakatsugawa in central Japan and is correctly pronounced as “ta-ka-mee-nay”. After a decade of experimenting […]
The St.Marys Mardi Gras Festival 2017 attracted many folks from South Georgia and Northeast Florida to a day of sun-filled, waterfront partying. Starting out the morning with some health related activities, at 10am the Parade took off and by noon everyone was ready for music and food. As always Jerry Lee’s Music gets involved in […]
After the previous introductions to finger picking and flatpicking techniques, as a beginning string instrument player you need to learn how to strum with proper accents and smoothness, in order to give your playing personality. Our best advice to make quick progress would be to take at least a couple of lessons from master players […]