R.I.P. Bill Collings (of interest to T-bone)
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:05 am
Saw this, thought T-bone would be interested, and perhaps others as well.
Luthier Bill Collings died of cancer over the weekend at age 68. Collings was a widely admired guitar maker whose instruments had found their way into the hands of players including Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and numerous others.
Collings dropped out of medical school and moved from Ohio to Houston in 1975, where he worked as an engineer for a pipeline company during the day. At night he built guitars. Three years later he met Lovett in Houston and built a Collings guitar for him.
Here's a nice Texas Monthly profile on him.