“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.” Credit... Supported by Text by Joshua Needelman Photographs and Video by Sasha Arutyunova ...

Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about ...

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood,... Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freeman Vines may not be a well known name in the music world, but his work is finally being recognized. In September, the ...

Freeman Vines worked on guitars out of a workshop in Fountain, North Carolina. He spoke with WUNC on Dec. 4, 2024. A prominent guitar maker and blues musician from Pitt County has died. Freeman Vines ...

A new exhibit has opened at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center introducing luthier Freeman Vine and the haunting guitars he carved from the wood of a “lynching tree” used in the murder of a Black ...

A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines. His handmade guitars are crafted from found materials and hunks of old wood, including some from a tree ...