The Fretboard Journal‘s 45th issue arrives filled cover-to-cover with the good stuff: more stories featuring the legends and the vanguard from the world of fretted-instrument makers and players. Flip through the pages and you’ll find in-depth features on inimitable pickers like David Grier, Oscar Moore, Eric Skye and Courtney Hartman, songwriters briefly lost to time, like Sachiko Kanenobu, and tapping into modern currents, standing on the shoulders of giants, like Kurt Vile, not to mention builders like Ken Hooper, who turned to The Tree to build a special instrument for flatpicker’s dream guitar. and, of course, much much more…