a '58 Goldtop Les Paul he bought from Guitar Center's vintage room, was resuscitated after nearly getting ruined by the flood ...

In western North Carolina, people who lost musical instruments due to flooding from Hurricane Helene got a chance to pick out new ones for free thanks to help from musicians across the U.S.

What we usually think of as Delta blues is one person with a guitar, typically a slide guitar ... that the blacks would just pitch in after the flood to restore the old order, and give volunteer ...