True faith, true light : the devotional art of Ed Stilley /
In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza, and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2015
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| Series: | Arkansas character
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : artist to artist to artist
- 1. Ed Stilley
- 2. Ed Stilley at Hogscald Holler
- 3. Tools of the trade
- 4. Ed Stilley's process
- 5. The magnificent "butterfly" guitar
- 6. The evolution of Ed's process
- 7. Ed Stilley's early creations
- 8. Form
- 9. Ed Stilley's middle-period instruments
- 10. The innards
- 11. Ed Stilley's middle-period instruments, continued
- 12. Intonation
- 13. Ed Stilley's late-period instruments
- 14. But do they sound good?
- 15. Ed Stilley's late-period instruments, continued
- 16. Unfinished work
- 17. The final word
- 18. Our journey with the Stilleys