By: Doug Harper
You are probably asking yourself right now, why is he famous, right? Famous Andy is not a person it is a guitar, named after a person. Yep you guessed it, that person?s name is Andy. Now how can a guitar be famous? Well if Andy could talk he would tell you more stories than I could possibly tell, because of where he has been and all that he has done. I have actually only owned Andy for about six months, and in fact have never actually paid for him. One day I came home and there he was sitting in my kitchen waiting to be played at the next gig. So it is weird just how I acquired this guitar, it?s like he chose me, instead of me buying it. Soon after I started playing gigs with Andy, he became an attraction to every show; every one was talking about him, and wanted to borrow him to make an appearance during their shows. He became famous not because of his past but from warm tone that he puts out, and his mysterious appearance at my house. It was not until later that we discovered the legends, and myths of his past. It is said that an old man at an auction in Nashville TN purchased Andy, when a studio there was selling out some of they?re equipment, just after a recording session with Willie Nelson, in his early days. No one knows what was paid for it, or at least the old man did not tell his grandson when he gave it to him. The grandson moved to Missouri where he lived in Kansas City, where the guitar again was sold at an estate auction after an early and unfortunate death in a car accident. A man bought the guitar for re-sale value, and again passed it on this time to a young boy named Andy. Andy did not know what to do with the guitar, but he knew I played and needed a good acoustic guitar, so he brought it by, and dropped it off in my kitchen for me. I put new strings on it and put some guitar picks in the pocket of the guitar case. I had a gig the next day, so I took the guitar to the show, and played it on stage. After the set, Andy came up to me and asked me how I like the guitar, and I told him that I loved the way it played and told him that I had no Idea where it had came from. He told me to keep it and keep playing it. I thought it would be nice to name it after him, and tell people about it at my shows. So that is who ?Famous? Andy is. Now every one just loves to play Andy, and see him at shows. I play the songs, but Andy makes the music.